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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:: 60017
The Staircase Group
The Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Peale) (1795)
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Painting ID:: 60018
George Washington in uniform, as colonel of the First Virginia Regiment
George Washington in uniform, as colonel of the First Virginia Regiment (1772)
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Painting ID:: 60019
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
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Painting ID:: 60020
William Clark
William Clark
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Painting ID:: 60021
Charles Pettit
Charles Pettit (1792)
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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: | Sofonisba Anguissola | Jan Van Kessel | RUYSDAEL, Salomon van | Charles Leslie Thrasher | j. g. sandberg |
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