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[[File:Charles Willson Peale Self Portrait 1822.jpg|left|Self-Portrait]]
[[File:Charles Willson Peale Self Portrait 1822.jpg|left|Self-Portrait]]
[[File:Charles Willson Peale General George Washington.jpg|thumb|General George Washington, 1779-1780.]]
'''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]