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Charles Willson Peale

[American Colonial Era Painter, 1741-1827]

• Relationships: Father of 17 children, including the artists Raphaelle Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale and Titian Peale.
Brother of James Peale.
Uncle of Charles Peale Polk.
Studied under Benjamin West.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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2 works by Charles Willson Peale online

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Portraits of Mr. and Mrs.

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Rachel Leeds Kerr, 1790

Charles Willson Peale at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Mordecai Gist, ca.1774
Self-Portrait, 1822

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

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

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
His Excellency George Washington, Esq., mezzotint, 1787

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Mrs. Walter Stewart (Deborah McClenachan)

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
William Buckland

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
John Beale Bordley

Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
David Rittenhouse

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Portrait of Mr. Francis Bailey

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Mrs. Francis Bailey

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
George Washington at the Battle of Princeton

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina   NEW!
General George Washington

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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George Washington, ca.1780-82

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
James Madison, 1792

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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Portrait of Robert Hazlehurst, 1782

Maryland State Archives

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
Elizabeth McClure

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
General George Washington, 1783

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 Historical Society

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
George Washington

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Gouverneur Morris and Robert Morris

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The Artist in His Museum

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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11 works by Charles Willson Peale online

Charles Willson Peale at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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

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)

 
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Charles Willson Peale in the Art Renewal Center

Charles Willson Peale at CGFA  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

The Athenaeum  
40 works online by Peale

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 
Other Web Sites:
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The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
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Articles:
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
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Exhumation of Martodonte, Baltimore
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