Charles Willson Peale
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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. [1]
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.
External links
- The First Family of American art.
- Charles Willson Peale ARTCYCLOPEDIA.
