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[https://www.christies.com/en/stories/the-peale-family-of-painters-ae2dafed624e43059ab36804fe44274a by CHRISTIE'S 13/12/22] | [https://www.christies.com/en/stories/the-peale-family-of-painters-ae2dafed624e43059ab36804fe44274a by CHRISTIE'S 13/12/22] | ||
A Renaissance man who studied under John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale was best known for his portraits of Revolutionary War heroes and the development of one of the nation’s first museums. He also founded two art academies and was a passionate educator — a practice he shared with his extended family, which included his 17 children. From this forerunner grew an artistic dynasty that established the Peales as some of the premier artists working in the nation’s early years. | A Renaissance man who studied under John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale was best known for his portraits of Revolutionary War heroes and the development of one of the nation’s first museums. He also founded two art academies and was a passionate educator — a practice he shared with his extended family, which included his 17 children. From this forerunner grew an artistic dynasty that established the Peales as some of the premier artists working in the nation’s early years. | ||
=====An early American art entrepreneur at the Speed===== | |||
[https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/an-early-american-art-entrepreneur-at-the-speed/ by The Magazine ANTIQUES 17/9/18] | |||
The advertisements he placed in local and regional newspapers described “elegant oil paintings by European and American masters in splendid gilt frames” that were ready “for immediate removal to the Parlor.” Let the Thomas Coles and Sanford Giffords of the world woo rich patrons, the artist Thomas Chambers went after aspiring members of the middle class, eager to have tokens of refinement in their home—a sweeping vista of Niagara Falls or the Bay of Naples, or a stirring depiction of a battle at sea. | |||
