Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician, and naturalist. In 1775...
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Belfield (Philadelphia) (redirect from Charles Willson Peale House)
Belfield, also known as the Charles Willson Peale House, was the home of Charles Willson Peale from 1810 to 1826, and was declared a National Historic...
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Museum was an early museum in Philadelphia started by the painter Charles Willson Peale and continued by his family. It was opened in 1784 as an art museum...
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children (11 had died) to his mother, Rachel Brewer, and father, Charles Willson Peale, in Bucks County. His father was also a notable artist, and named...
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Charles Peale Polk (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822) was an American portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson Peale. Polk was born in Annapolis...
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an enslaved person. James Alexander Simpson and Charles Willson Peale painted his portrait, Peale's being held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Yarrow...
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polymath Charles Willson Peale and his wife Elizabeth de Peyster, Peale was named after his dead half-brother, also named Titian Ramsay Peale (1780–1798)...
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artist. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of artist-naturalist Charles Willson Peale. Due to his weak eyesight, he did not practice painting seriously...
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Ramsay Peale (1780– September 18, 1798) was an American ornithologist, entomologist, and artist who helped his father, the polymath Charles Willson Peale, assemble...
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portrait of George Washington – usually the Rembrandt Peale Porthole portrait or the Charles Willson Peale three-quarter-length portrait – over the mantel at...
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of noted painter Charles Willson Peale. Peale was born in Chestertown, Maryland, the second child, after Charles, of Charles Peale (1709–1750) and Margaret...
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Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of the painter Charles Willson Peale and his first wife Rachel Brewer. He grew up in Philadelphia, and...
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by the artist Charles Willson Peale. Moses Williams was born in about 1777 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Scarborough and Lucy Peale, who were enslaved...
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Washington at Princeton (category Paintings by Charles Willson Peale)
Washington at Princeton is a 1779 painting by Charles Willson Peale, showing George Washington after the Battle of Princeton. The original was commissioned...
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Albert C. Peale was the son of Charles Willson Peale (1821-1871) and Harriet Friel. Albert Peale's paternal grandfather was Rubens Peale, and his paternal...
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typically on display in American museums, a trend first started by Charles Willson Peale in 1804. Taxonomically, M. americanum was first recognized as a...
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the original. An Englishman, John Isaac Hawkins, and an American, Charles Willson Peale, had earlier developed this device with the help of Jefferson's...
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The Artist in His Museum (category Paintings by Charles Willson Peale)
self-portrait by the American painter Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827). It depicts the 81-year-old artist posed in Peale's Museum, then occupying the second...
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Major General Artemas Ward, Adjutant General Horatio Gates, Major General Charles Lee, Major General Philip Schuyler, and Major General Nathanael Greene...
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believed in pushing their children toward artistic careers. James Peale and Charles Willson Peale both had influential standing in the lives of their children...
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except for a period from 1692 to 1715 until a new one designed by Charles Willson Peale was adopted in 1794. That seal used republican imagery, such as...
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lithographer. She was the eldest daughter of artist Rembrandt Peale and granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale. Rosa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1799...
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Goodrich, Dewitt Clinton; Tuttle, Charles Richard (1875). An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana. Indiana: R. S. Peale & co. pp. 572. "Benjamin Rush...
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Rubens Peale Anna Claypoole Peale (1791–1878), American miniature painter, daughter of James Peale Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), American painter...
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allegations he had used his position for personal gain. Peale was a son of painter Charles Willson Peale, and was born in the Philadelphia Museum, a museum...
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was also rebuilt during this period. From 1802 to 1827, artist Charles Willson Peale housed his Philadelphia Museum of natural history specimens (including...
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become popular until 1800.[citation needed] John Isaac Hawkins and Charles Willson Peale patented a polygraph in the US in 1803, and beginning in 1804 Thomas...
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Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III, was an American politician, planter...
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well as studies of his life. Pictured here is the oil portrait by Charles Willson Peale of Lesueur. The original hangs in the reading room of the Ewell...
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1786. She was the daughter of the polymath Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) and his wife, Rachel Brewer Peale (1744–1790). She was named after the Italian...
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