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| Charles Willson Peale art links |
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Original works by Charles Willson Peale available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Portraits of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Willson Peale at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Mordecai Gist, ca.1774
Self-Portrait, 1822
Charles Willson Peale at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
18 works by Charles Willson Peale online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Charles Willson Peale at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Charles Willson Peale
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Mrs. Walter Stewart (Deborah McClenachan)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
William Buckland
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
David Rittenhouse
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Portrait of Mr. Francis Bailey
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Mrs. Francis Bailey
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
General George Washington
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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George Washington, ca.1780-82
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Rachel Leeds Kerr, 1790
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
James Madison, 1792
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia NEW!
David Gelston, 1792
Maryland State Archives
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
John Beale Bordley
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Elizabeth McClure
Charles Willson Peale at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Portrait of Benjamin Rush
Portrait of David Rittenhouse
Charles Willson Peale at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
3 portraits
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Charles Waterton, 1824
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New England Merchant, 1765
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
His Excellency George Washington, Esq., mezzotint, 1787
New-York Historical Society
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
George Washington
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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11 works by Charles Willson Peale online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina NEW!
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Robinson, 1795
Charles Willson Peale at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Portrait of Isabella and John Stewart, ca.1775
U.S. Senate Art Collection
George Washington at Princeton
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
William Smith and His Grandson, Robert Smith Williams, 1788
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Portrait of Thomas Mckean
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Charles Pettit, 1792
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Charles Pettit, 1792
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Charles Willson Peale in the Art Renewal Center
Charles Willson Peale at CGFA
The Athenaeum 
40 works online by Peale
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Miscellaneous Sites:
Maryland ArtSource
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Charles Willson Peale 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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America's Old Masters: West, Copley, Peale and Stuart
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