Gerard Krefft
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Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft, was an Australian artist, draughtsman, scientist, and natural historian who served as the curator of the Australian Museum for 13 years. He was one of Australia's first an
Gerard Krefft, 1869–1870
Gerard Krefft (1869) with his Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
Rev. John William Colenso, DD, Bishop of Natal (1875).
Prof. Robert Jameson (c.1847).
Charles Willson Peale
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Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, military officer, scientist, and naturalist.
Gerard Krefft
…trustees, who would have preferred someone with a formal degree". Pittard, driven by his Anglo-Catholic, Puseyite views — and following the practice of Charles Willson Peale at the Peale Museum, in Philadelphia — adorned the walls of the Museum with inscriptions of biblical texts. Less than three weeks after Pittard's death…
Self-portrait, c. 1791
Peale's Self-portrait (c. 1782–1785) with his daughter Angelica as he works on a portrait of his wife Rachel
Peale's portrait Washington at Princeton (1779) sold for $21.3 million in 2005, the most ever paid for a portrait in the United States. It is now housed at Yale University Art Gallery
Peale's The Artist in His Museum, an 1822 self-portrait now displayed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia