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'''Charles Willson Peale''' (1741 – 1827) was an American Colonial Era [[painter]], scientist, inventor, founder of museums and art societies; 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''' (1741 – 1827) was an American Colonial Era [[painter]], scientist, inventor, founder of museums and art societies; 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]

Peale 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]], his son, opened this museum on August 15, 1814. [[Ibidem]]  

Peale's faith in the educational value of art led him to establish a painting academy in Philadelphia as early as 1795. [http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=50684] Peale 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]], his son, opened this museum on August 15, 1814. [[Ibidem]]  

Charles Willson Peale was the patriarch of the [[The Peale Family]], ''the First Family of American art.''

Charles Willson Peale was the patriarch of the [[The Peale Family]], ''the First Family of American art.''