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Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale Portrait of the Peale Family oil painting on canvas
Portrait of the Peale Family
Painting ID::  30634
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Charles Willson Peale Portrait of the Peale Family oil painting on canvas



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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
  Portrait of the Peale Family
  mk68 Oil on canvas New York, New York Historical Society 1773-1809 USA

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