Charles Wilson Peale
from more than two years of study in London, schooled in the art of portraiture and in command of the artistic versatility that was to characterize his career. He introduced his children and his brother to the art of painting, and they, in turn, passed the heritage to succeeding generations. "For a full century the Peale artists contributed their talents to the development of American art and ideas. Through thousands of works of art as well as through art institutions, scientific explorations and publications, and educational activities, the Peales sought to persuade Americans of the value of cultural and intellectual enterprises for thecontinued success of the country's republican experiment."1 Charles Willson Peale was the eldest of all of his siblings. Peale born in 1741, labored as craftsman until 1762, when he discovered the art of portraiture. After receiving brief instruction from portraitists John Hesselius and John Singleton Copley in the colonies, Peale traveled abroad in 1766 to study in the London studio of American artist Benjamin West. "Returning home thoroughly conversant with the major elements of the British portrait tradition and the classical theory that dominated 18th-century Bri
De La Croix, Horst and Tansey, Robert G. New York, NY: Antheneum Books For Young Authors, 1996. "8 The increased popularity of miniatures encouraged artists such as Anna Claypoole Peale, who attained a high status that no American woman artist had previously achieved and few would rival. When Charles Willson Peale moved to Philadelphia in December 1775, on the eve of the Revolution, he met statesmen, military leaders, scientists, and philosophers. Patronage expanded to the more numerous middle class, whose interest was fostered by exhibitions of miniatures in newly established galleries. "12 Charles's son Rubens began painting landscapes late in his life, attracted to the scenery near his farm outside Philadelphia. 4"Titian Ramsay Peale's watercolors and sketches of the American West, made while serving as an artist-naturalist on the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1819-20, show the transition from the refined neoclassical style of the elder Peales to the romantic depiction of nature developing in the 1820s. The younger Peales, in painting portraits of each other as well as self-portraits, used the opportunity to experiment, conveying in paint their individual sense of self as well as their feelings for each other. 144 ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography** This book gives a bibliographical view on the life Charles Willson Peale and it shows his works of art. In the late 18th centurythey were exchanged by betrothed couples or presented as mementos to loved ones.
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