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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:: 60022
Henry Knox
Henry Knox (1784)
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Painting ID:: 60023
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene (1783)
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Painting ID:: 60024
Armand Tuffin de La Rouerie
Armand Tuffin de La Rouerie (1782)
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Painting ID:: 60025
Portrait of Henrietta Maria Bordley at age 10,
Portrait of Henrietta Maria Bordley at age 10, 1773, Honolulu Academy of Arts
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Painting ID:: 70989
Mrs. David Forman and Child
ca. 1785(1785)
Oil on canvas
129.5 x 100 cm (50.98 x 39.37 in)
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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: | Miel, Jan | Thomas Sully | Jacques de la Joue | Vincenzo Foppa | Howard Pyle |
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