| − | Charles Willson Peale (1741 – 1827), the patriarch, was painter, scientist, inventor, founder of museums and art societies; he founded the Philadelphia Museum or the Peale Museum in 1786; later the Peale's Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts occupied the first building erected as a museum in the United States; Rembrant Peale opened this museum on August 15, 1814. | + | Charles Willson Peale (1741 – 1827), the patriarch, was painter, scientist, inventor, founder of museums and art societies; he founded the Philadelphia Museum or the Peale Museum in 1786; later the Peale's Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts occupied the first building erected as a museum in the United States; Rembrandt Peale opened this museum on August 15, 1814. |