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Charles Willson Peale
1741-1827
Painter and museum founder. After serving as a saddler's apprentice in Annapolis, MD, from 1754 to 1761, he worked at various trades, including painting signs and portraits. In 1766 some prominent Marylanders underwrote his studies in London with Benjamin West, from whom he absorbed the fundamentals of the British portrait tradition. Peale probably attended the informal life classes offered at St Martin's Lane Academy, precursor to the Royal Academy Schools, and drew from casts in the Duke of Richmond's collection in Whitehall. He visited the studios of such important British portrait painters as Joshua Reynolds, Francis Cotes and Allan Ramsay and studied the techniques of miniature painting, sculpture and engraving. In London he executed his first major commission
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Painting ID:: 39051
George Washington
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1776
Oil on canvas
111.7x97.3cm
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Painting ID:: 60013
The Exhumation of the Mastodon
The Exhumation of the Mastodon (1806)
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Painting ID:: 60014
George Washington at Princeton
George Washington at Princeton (1779)
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Painting ID:: 60015
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1791)
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Painting ID:: 60016
Timothy Matlack
Timothy Matlack (c. 1790)
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Charles Willson Peale
1741-1827
Painter and museum founder. After serving as a saddler's apprentice in Annapolis, MD, from 1754 to 1761, he worked at various trades, including painting signs and portraits. In 1766 some prominent Marylanders underwrote his studies in London with Benjamin West, from whom he absorbed the fundamentals of the British portrait tradition. Peale probably attended the informal life classes offered at St Martin's Lane Academy, precursor to the Royal Academy Schools, and drew from casts in the Duke of Richmond's collection in Whitehall. He visited the studios of such important British portrait painters as Joshua Reynolds, Francis Cotes and Allan Ramsay and studied the techniques of miniature painting, sculpture and engraving. In London he executed his first major commission
. Related Artists to Charles Willson Peale: | Francois-Marius Granet | Charles Bird King | Frank Mahony | Gabriel Lory Pere | Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun |
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