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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:: 86085
Portrait of John and Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader and their Daughter Anne
Date 1772(1772)
Medium English: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions English: 51 1/2 x 41 1/4" (130.8 x 104.4 cm)
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Painting ID:: 86670
Portrait of Yarrow Mamout
24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm). 1819
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Painting ID:: 87855
Exhuming the First American Mastodon
1806(1806)
Medium English: Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: 50 x 62 1/2" (127 x 158.7 cm)
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Painting ID:: 93098
James Wilkinson
Oil on canvas, 231/2" x 191/4"
Date 1797(1797)
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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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