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)
Charles Willson Peale
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Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, military officer, scientist, and naturalist.
Rembrandt Peale
…1778, near present-day Richboro, Pennsylvania, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the third of six surviving children (11 had died) to Rachel Brewer and Charles Willson Peale, in Bucks County. His father was also a notable artist, and named him after the noted 17th-century Dutch painter and engraver Rembrandt Harmenszoon van…
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