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They were active from ca. 1760 to ca. 1880, and their commitment to [[art]] during a period of revolution and nation-building contributed in a large way to the growth of American artistic interests and institutions... the [[portraits|portrait]] [[painter]] [[Charles Willson Peale]] (first son of Charles Peale), exerted a major influence on American painting through his own work and that of his sons, brothers and nieces. [http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0659/T065922.asp]

They were active from ca. 1760 to ca. 1880, and their commitment to [[art]] during a period of revolution and nation-building contributed in a large way to the growth of American artistic interests and institutions... the [[portraits|portrait]] [[painter]] [[Charles Willson Peale]] (first son of Charles Peale), exerted a major influence on American painting through his own work and that of his sons, brothers and nieces. [http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0659/T065922.asp] Charles Willson Peale taught all his family to paint — brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, nephews and nieces, even a few promising in-laws - so that two generations of Peales busily recorded themselves and each other in portraits and miniatures. [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1955/3/1955_3_40.shtml]

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Charles Willson Peale was one of the universal men of the Eighteenth Century, a man whose talent and interests ran in a hundred different directions: inventor, mechanic, silversmith, watchmaker, millwright, patriot, soldier, politician and naturalist. [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1955/3/1955_3_40.shtml]

Charles Willson Peale was one of the universal men of the Eighteenth Century, a man whose talent and interests ran in a hundred different directions: inventor, mechanic, silversmith, watchmaker, millwright, patriot, soldier, politician and naturalist. [[Ibidem]]

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