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Rembrandt Peale - Timothy Matlack

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Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
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The Artist died in 1860 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer. It is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before Jan 1, 1926
Rembrandt Peale

Rembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties.

Rembrandt Peale was born the third of six surviving children (11 had died) to his mother, Rachel Brewer, and father, Charles Willson Peale, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1778. The father, Charles, also a notable artist, named him after the noted 17th-century Dutch painter and engraver Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. His father also taught all of his children, including Raphaelle Peale, Rubens Peale and Titian Peale, to paint scenery and portraiture, and tutored Rembrandt in the arts and sciences. Rembrandt began drawing at the age of eight. A year after his mother's death and the remarriage of his father, Peale left the school of the arts, and completed his first self-portrait at the age of 13.

In July 1787, Charles Willson Peale introduced his son Rembrandt to George Washington, and the young aspirant artist watched his father paint the future president. In 1795, at the age of 17, Rembrandt painted an aging Washington, making him appear far more aged than in reality. The portrait was well received, and Rembrandt had made his debut.

In 1822, Peale moved to New York City, where he embarked on an attempt to paint what he hoped would become the "standard likeness" of Washington. He studied portraits by other artists including John Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart and his own father, as well as his own 1795 picture which had never truly satisfied him. His resulting work Patriae Pater, completed in 1824, depicts Washington through an oval window, and is considered by many to be second only to Gilbert Stuart's iconic Athenaeum painting of the first president.

In 1826 he helped found the National Academy of Design in New York City.

Peale went on to create over 70 detailed replicas, including one of Washington in full military uniform that currently hangs in the Oval Office. Peale continued to paint other noted portraits, such as those of the third president Thomas Jefferson while he was in office (1805), and later on a portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall.

Peale died June 12, 1860, in Philadelphia and is buried at Woodlands Cemetery in West Philadelphia.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Man Reading By Candlelight

Man Reading By Candlelight (between 1805 and 1808)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
The Marquis de Lafayette

The Marquis de Lafayette (1825)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Portrait of Commander Lewis Warrington

Portrait of Commander Lewis Warrington (1801-02)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
John Witherspoon

John Witherspoon (1794)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Rubens Peale

Rubens Peale

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Portrait of Mary Lord

Portrait of Mary Lord

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Portrait of the Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866)

Portrait of the Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) (1821)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
The Court of Death

The Court of Death (1820)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Portrait of a Young Girl

Portrait of a Young Girl (1860)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Idealized Portrait

Idealized Portrait

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
Juliana Westray Wood

Juliana Westray Wood (1811)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
James Kent

James Kent (1835)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
George Washington (1732-1799)

George Washington (1732-1799) (1850)

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
George Washington

George Washington

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860)
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