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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:: 77820
Rachel Leeds Kerr
1790(1790)
Oil on canvas
91.4 ?? 68.6 cm (36 ?? 27 in)
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Painting ID:: 77881
Oil on canvas painting of Richard Henry Lee
Oil on canvas painting of Richard Henry Lee; size without frame 75.6??63.3 cm.
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Painting ID:: 78647
Self-portrait
1822
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Painting ID:: 81793
Self portrait
1822(1822)
Medium Oil
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Painting ID:: 83991
Exhuming the First American Mastodon.
Date 1806(1806)
Medium English: Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: 50 x 62 1/2" (127 x 158.7 cm)
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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: | Giacomo Francesco Cipper | Jean-Baptiste Francois Desoria | Jeremiah Theus | Christian Friedrich Gille | Friedrich August von Kaulabch |
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