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	Charles Willson Peale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peale was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland and became an apprentice to a saddle maker when he was thirteen years old.
		Peale was quite prolific as an artist, and while he did portraits of scores of historic figures (such as John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton), he is probably best known for his portraits of George Washington.
		Peale could accurately be described as a "renaissance man", having developed a certain level of expertise in such diverse fields as carpentry, dentistry, optometry, shoemaking and taxidermy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Willson_Peale (594 words)

	Charles Willson Peale: CHAPTER ONE
		Charles Peale was disappointed by his failure to become one of the landed gentry in England or the slaveholding planters in the Tidewater.
		Charles Peale's statement that "nature designed me" indicated his fatalism as well as the belief in premodern societies that each person, as a link in the great chain of being, had a "place"; society was thus naturalized to justify stasis and acquiescence among the ranks.
		Peale reported receiving a letter from a "Captain James Digby" in England indicating that Charles Peale's claim of a wealthy family was true and that Charles Willson Peale was entitled to an inheritance of 2,000.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9210/9210.ch01.html (8565 words)

	Early American Paintings
		Peale has arranged three generations of the family around a table, with the pet dog in the foreground and Margaret Durgan, whom Peale described as a "nurse to all of his children," in the background.
		Peale painted portraits of a number of public officials in Washington to display at the museum—at least partly as a tactical maneuver—but this and his other efforts in the capital failed to yield the national institutional status he sought.
		On the floor in front of Peale are the carcass of a wild turkey and the artist’s taxidermy kit, the tools he used to transform the thousands of birds he collected into lifelike displays of specimens in neatly framed cases lining the lower portion of the wall on the left.
	www.worcesterart.org /Collection/Early_American/Artists/peale_c/biography/content.html (2802 words)

	NARA - NHPRC - Annotation
		Charles Willson Peale, the patriarch of the family, was not only an artist but a multi-faceted man of the American Enlightenment, who engaged in American society and culture in a wide variety of ways.
		Charles Willson was a member of a Philadelphia militia unit; he was present during part of the fighting in Trenton, and at the Battle of Princeton.
		The letters of Charles Willson Peale's daughter, Sophonisba, which are valuable both for their information on the Peales and as documents of family life in 19th-century America, will also be included.
	www.archives.gov /nhprc/annotation/september-98/charles-willson-peale.html?template=print (2122 words)

	Charles Willson Peale
		In 1772, at Mount Vernon, Peale painted a three-quarters-length study of Washington (the earliest known portrait of him), in the uniform of a colonel of Virginia militia.
		Peale painted two miniatures of Martha Washington (1772 and 1777), and portraits of many of the famous men of the time, a number of which are in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
		Peale removed to Philadelphia in 1777, and served as a member of the committee of public safety; he aided in raising a militia company, became a lieutenant and afterwards a captain, and took part in the battles of Trenton, Princeton and Germantown.
	www.nndb.com /people/443/000086185 (494 words)

	The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers"
		Charles Willson Peale, the patriarch of the family, was not only an artist, but a multifaceted man of the American Enlightenment who engaged in society and culture in a wide variety of ways.
		Charles Willson became a soldier in the Philadelphia militia, was present during part of the fighting in Trenton, and at the Battle of Princeton; his diary as a militiaman is published in volume 1 of the Selected Papers.
		The letters of Charles Willson Peale's daughter, Sophonisba, valuable both for their information on the Peales and as documents of family life in nineteenth-century America, will also be included.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/peale/papers2.htm (1353 words)

	Charles Willson Peale
		Charles Willson Peale: The Peale Family - The Peale Family Charles Willson Peale's brother James Peale,.
		Charles Willson Peale: Early Life - Early Life Apprenticed to a saddler in Annapolis, he became at 20 his own master and taught himself...
		Charles Willson Peale: Later Life and Work - Later Life and Work In 1779 Peale was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature and was politically...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0837978.html (123 words)

	Peale, Charles Willson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The earliest known portrait of Washington (1772; Washington and Lee Univ.) was painted by Peale.
		In 1779 Peale was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature and was politically active for several years.
		Besides a series of portraits of eminent Americans by Peale and his son Rembrandt, it contained a number of Native American relics, waxworks dummies, and specimens of natural history.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Peale-Ch.html (688 words)

	School Arts - The First Family of American Art
		The patriarch, Charles Willson Peale, was an accomplished painter, scientist, inventor, founder of museums and art societies; his dynasty included his nine children, many of whom were named after famous painters and who were themselves artists.
		Peale is meticulous in his rendering of their stage of ripeness and includes every blemish.
		Peale distinguishes between the organic world of nature represented by the fruit rendered in soft brushstrokes, and the manmade realm, seen in the Chinese porcelain basket, whose hard, glossy, vitreous surface is described in tight, precise brushstrokes.
	www.nga.gov /education/schoolarts/peale.htm (1197 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Peale, Charles Willson @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		PEALE, CHARLES WILLSON [Peale, Charles Willson], 1741-1827, American portrait painter, naturalist, and inventor, b.
		After working with Copley, Peale returned to Annapolis to paint portraits of its wealthy citizens, a group of whom sent (1766) him to study with Benjamin West in London.
		Peale served as a captain of volunteers in the Revolution, painting, when he could, portraits of military leaders.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Peale-Ch&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (701 words)

	Charles Willson Peale: “Your Garden Must be a Museum”
		Through his garden at Belfield, Peale commemorated the significant events of the past, immortalized the heroic figures of the present, and laid a sound moral and spiritual foundation for the generations of the future.
		Peale lived in accordance with these sentiments, sketching landscapes whenever the opportunity arose, reconstructing "natural habitats" to serve as backdrops for the taxidermy exhibits in his museum, making pets of the various animals kept on the grounds of Belfield, and so forth.
		Thomas Jefferson, Peale’s long-time friend and frequent correspondent on the subject of gardening, was also familiar with Hogarth’s philosophy of aesthetics and encouraged the novice farmer to apply the serpentine curve in contour plowing; Peale adopted this advice.
	www.lasalle.edu /commun/history/articles/pealeweb.htm (1126 words)

	Charles Willson Peale, Hudson River Sketchbook, American Philosophical Society
		During the voyage to Masten's farm, Peale was overwhelmed by the scenery and began sketching furiously.
		Charles Willson Peale's Hudson River Sketchbook is a graphic record of the journey to unearth the mastodon skeleton that became the centerpiece of Peale's Philadelphia Museum.
		The APS also houses sketchbooks of James Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale, and the diaries of Charles Willson Peale that cover the period during which this trip was made.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/p/hudsonriver.htm (1106 words)

	cwpeale
		Peale thanks the friends of the Museum, who have beneficially added to his collection a number of precious curiosities, from many parts of the world; --from Africa, from Indies, from China, from the Islands of the great Pacific Ocean, and from different parts of America.
		Peale's museum also displayed previously known animals which were the first of their kind to be displayed in America, for example, an ant-eater and a camel-leopard, or giraffe.
		Peale's remarkable museum was celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, as his work fascinated and inspired others to investigate the world of nature.
	www.dickinson.edu /~nicholsa/Romnat/cwpeale.htm (1105 words)

	NPS Museum Collections 'American Revolutionary War: Independence National Historic Park'
		There, Peale was the first to display birds and mammals in museum cases with painted backgrounds that depicted the creatures' natural habitats.
		Peale returned to his easel, inspired by the experience his son Rembrandt gained during a sojourn in Paris, where the younger man studied at art academies.
		Charles Willson Peale continued to paint both private commissions and museum portraits until shortly before his death on February 22, 1827.
	www.cr.nps.gov /museum/exhibits/revwar/inde/indepeale.html (563 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: "Extend the sphere": Charles Willson Peale's panorama of Annapolis
		Peale's perspective machines have long since disappeared, and all but three of his sketches are presumed lost.
		More specifically, the evidence suggests that Peale was actively exploring modes of panoramic vision and representation during the same period in which northern Europeans were beginning to express interest in these phenomena--and a full seven years before a panorama painting was first exhibited in the United States.
		In concept and conceptual form, Peale's spherical print manifested notions of republican citizenship and spatiality, affirming the sovereignty of the spectator-citizen during a period in which vision was tied to political aptitude.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_86/ai_n8680828 (1319 words)

	Maryland ArtSource - Artists - Charles Willson Peale
		Charles Willson Peale settled in Philadelphia in 1776, where he served as an officer for a commanded corps of volunteers in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
		Charles Willson Peale had 11 children, all named after famous artists; his wife was Rachel Brewer (1744-1790) who he married in 1762.
		It mentions that: Peale's portraits reflect the naturalistic portrait style of London in Sir Joshua Reynolds' day as well as Hogarth's theory of the line of beauty'; Du Fresnoy acquainted Peale with the concept of a relationship between painting and poetry; and Benjamin West's dedication to art influenced Charles Willson Peale greatly.
	www.marylandartsource.org /artists/detail_000000030.html (729 words)

	Magazine Antiques: Philadelphia celebrates the Peales - artist Charles Willson Peale
		The artist Charles Wilson Peale was the paterfamilias of a famous dynasty of painters and the brother of the artist James, whose children also became artists.
		The Peales are now the subject of a large exhibition that opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 3 and remains on view through January 5, 1997.
		Charles Willson died in 1827 and his sons, free of his daunting influence, began to expand their horizons both in art and other endeavors, mainly museum management.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n5_v150/ai_18941798 (1413 words)

	Charles Willson Peale
		PEALE, Charles Willson, artist, born in Chestertown, Maryland, 16 April, 1741; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22 February, 1827.
		Peale was president of the American academy, succeeding Colonel Trumbull, and was one of the original members of the Academy of design.
		Joseph Sabin says that the volume "was suppressed, and is of the greatest rarity."--A brother of Charles Willson, James, artist, born in Annapolis in 1749" died in Philadelphia, 24 May, 1831, served during the Revolution as an officer of the Continental line.
	www.famousamericans.net /charleswillsonpeale (1518 words)

	The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870
		Charles Willson Peale, born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland in 1741, the son of an artisan, was a man of unbridled enthusiasm for painting.
		Charles Willson Peale moved from Annapolis to Philadelphia, then the cultural and political center of the colonies, in 1776, bringing his skills as an artist to the aid of the revolution.
		Titian Peale (1799-1885), the youngest (and the second Peale son to bear that name), was an explorer, naturalist, and artist whose zoological illustrations rivaled those of John James Audubon; his early work in photography contributed to interest in and development of the new medium.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa124.htm (1728 words)

	Charles Willson Peale - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Peale's idea of a Gallery of Great Men led him to paint head and shoulder "museum" portraits; the first were completed by 1782.
		Peale was a friend of many intellectual and political leaders and eventually painted images of many of the heroes of the war and the new republic, including Washington, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin (Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia).
		He trained his brother James, his nephew Charles Peale Polk, and his sons Raphaelle, Rembrandt and Rubens Peale as painters, and was a founder of the Columbianum, the first American artists' society, which held its only public exhibition in Philadelphia in 1795.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?24300 (585 words)

	Charles Willson Peale Online
		Charles Willson Peale at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Charles Willson Peale at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Portrait of Benjamin Rush
		Charles Willson Peale at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. 3 portraits
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/peale_charles_willson.html (423 words)

	Washington College \| Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known primarily as a portrait painter, Charles Willson Peale was born in Chestertown, MD, in 1741.
		He was apprenticed to an Annapolis saddler at the age of nine, and as a youth, Peale taught himself to paint by observing the techniques of portraitist John Hesselius.
		Besides a series of portraits of eminent Americans by Peale and his son, Rembrandt, the museum contained a number of Native American relics, waxworks dummies, and specimens of natural history.
	www.washcoll.edu /wc/news/press_releases/04_04_22_peale.html (452 words)

	The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers, a historical editing project established in 1974, is an integral part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.
		The archive traces the family's history from the arrival of Charles Peale, a transported felon, through the career of Charles Willson Peale -- artist, Revolutionary soldier, naturalist and museum keeper, and Enlightenment polymath -- down through the nineteenth-century careers and lives of his many children, including his sons Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Titian Ramsay, and Rubens.
		In addition to its richness as a source of biographical information on the Peale family, the archive is a matchless source of information on American family, social, and cultural history from the 1730s to the 1880s.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/peale (169 words)

	Peale, Charles Willson on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Extend the sphere": Charles Willson Peale's panorama of Annapolis.
		A family portrait: Peale show paints a grand picture of clan, early America.(Arts)(Art)
		Ingenuity of artist-naturalist on display ; The George B. Dorr Museum will showcase some of Charles Willson Peale's many talents.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Peale-Ch_ThePealeFamily.asp (920 words)

	Maryland Historical Society Library - Peale Collection - PP10 - FINDING AID
		Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) was an American portrait painter, born in Queen Anne County, Maryland.
		With sponsorship from wealthy supporters, Peale was able to travel to England in 1767 and study painting with Benjamin West.
		Charles Willson Peale’s youngest sibling James Peale (1749-1831) was a painter, as were James’ daughters Sarah Miriam (1800-1885), Anna Claypoole (1791-1878), and Margaretta.
	www.mdhs.org /library/fotofind/pp0010fa.html (446 words)

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