Rembrandt Peale
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Rembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's styl
Self-portrait, 1828, Detroit Institute of Arts
The Roman Daughter (1811)
Peale, "the oldest living American artist," captured by Mathew B. Brady in 1855–1860.
Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale with a Geranium (1801)
Martha Washington
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, s
Rembrandt Peale
…portrait painting. Gallery Portrait of John Witherspoon, c. 1794 Portrait of Francis Scott Key, c. 1796 Portrait of Joseph McMinn, c. 1796 Portrait of Martha Washington, c. 1796 Portrait of Alexander Contee Hanson Sr., c. 1798 Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, c. 1800 Working Sketch of the Mastodon, c. 1801 Portrait of…
Portrait by Rembrandt Peale c. 1796
Dandridge at age eight
Chestnut Grove plantation (1919 photograph)
Martha Dandridge Custis in 1757: engraving by John Chester Buttre after a portrait by John Wollaston