While research potential artists or works to discuss today , I stumbled upon the American creative person Charles Willson Peale . Peale was involved in everything during his time , so I have no idea why I had never heard of him before . His life was full ( he perish at age 86 , a three - time widower ) and fascinating so , in laurels of his 267th birthday , I ’m proud to present a limited three - part edition of " Feel Art Again . "
Today , we ’ll bet at the artist and his family , alongside one of his seven ego - portrayal , paint in 1822 . Tomorrow , we ’ll delve into his part as a naturalist , his museum , and another ego - portrait , " The Artist in His Museum . " And , on Thursday , we ’ll explore his role as an American patriot , alongside one of his most well - known painting , " George Washington at Princeton . "
The Artist & His Family
1.At age 13 , Charles Willson Peale was apprenticed to a saddle maker . After germinate his craft , he subsequently opened his own saddle store . However , when his Loyalist creditors find out that he had unite the Sons of Liberty , they worked to bankrupt his patronage .
2.Peale received artistic breeding as an adult and finally became the patriarch of a large , artistic kin . His comrade , James , received grooming from him , and then became a illustrious artist in his own right wing . Two of James ' five girl , Sarah Miriam Peale and Anna Claypoole Peale , also became painters . Charles Peale himself acquire 16 children between his first two ( of three ) wife . He named all his sons after artists , and three of them — Rembrandt , Raphaelle , and Titian Ramsay — became artists themselves .
3.In 1810 , at age 69 , Peale corrupt Nieve ’s Place , a 104 - acre demesne in Philadelphia , and move there with his third wife , Hannah , and five of his younger children . Peale , a skilled inventor , built all kinds of machinery for his newfangled farm , including an apple paring knife , a corn plantation owner , a milk cart , and a cotton fiber mill . Though the farm produced straw , hay , Zea mays , potatoes , vegetables and fruits , and dairy farm products , the only profitable product was currant wine , although Peale was against the using up of it . The estate is now owned by La Salle University and is loose for visit .
4.Considered an " American Leonardo , " Peale pursued all his hobby and ventures with equal heat and enthusiasm . Among his rocking horse were taxidermy , hit false tooth , and plan mechanical farm equipment , as well as house painting . He also author several books on a variety of topics . The Philadelphia Inquirer ranked him as " 2nd only to Benjamin Franklin as Philadelphia ’s 18th hundred Renaissance man . "
5.Since 1974 , the Smithsonian Institution ’s National Portrait Gallery has been conducting a diachronic editing project of the Charles Willson Peale Family Papers . They have pucker more than six thousand document that span three coevals of Peales , tracing the home from the arrival of Charles Peale , a enthral whitlow , through Charles Willson Peale and his issue . In plus to his creative person Word , his offspring include Franklin Peale , who became Chief Coiner of the Philadelphia Mint in 1795 , and Titian and Rubens Peale , who were both naturalist .
A larger version of Peale ’s ego - portrayal is availablehere .
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