Charles Willson Peale
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Education, Arts, Science
- Subcategories: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing, Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers
- Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), American History 1816-1855, American Early National History (1789-1815)
Article abstract: Peale combined a sense of patriotism in his portraits of revolutionary and early national leaders with a faith in democracy by establishing the first public museum of art and science in America.
Early Life
Charles Willson Peale was born April 15, 1741, in Queen Anne County, Maryland. His mother was Margaret Triggs of Annapolis, Maryland; his father, Charles Peale, Jr., a convicted forger, had been banished to the Colonies in 1735. Peale had five children, of which Charles Willson was the eldest. In 1750, when Charles was only nine years...
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