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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]]  

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.''

Father of 17 children, including the artists Raphaelle Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale and Titian Peale and brother of James Peale, Charles Willson Peale was the patriarch of the [[The Peale Family]], ''the First Family of American art.''

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