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Peale, Charles Willson


Subject History

Place Northern America » United States of America

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x


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(b. Queen Anne Co., Md., 15 April 1741; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 22 February 1827) He was a saddler who at the age of 20, acquired a consuming passion to paint. He studied with John S. C opley at Boston and joined the A merican school in 1767. He established a portrait studio in Philadelphia and was a militia officer in the Revolution. He executed some of the best likenesses of the founding fathers, and was the Revolutionary era's second greatest portraitist, after Gilbert S tuart . He sired a dynasty of artists by his sons Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian, and Rubens. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Dictionary of American History



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