Monday, October 15, 2012

Charles Willson Peale, James Peale Painting a Miniature, c.1795...





Charles Willson Peale, James Peale Painting a Miniature, c.1795 (source).


Charles taught his younger brother James how to paint, and James went on to become a highly accomplished painter of portrait miniatures and still lifes. Many of Charles and James’ children and grand-children also became artists, making the Peale family influential in American art for over a century.


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