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Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) 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.
Rembrandt Peale, born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was the son of Philadelphia artist and museum proprietor Charles Willson Peale, and his first wife Rachel Brewer.
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Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) 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.
Rembrandt Peale (born Feb. 22, 1778, Bucks county, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 3, 1860, Philadelphia, Pa.) was an American painter, writer, and portraitist of prominent figures in Europe and the post-Revolutionary United States.
Perhaps the most ambitious of Charles Willson Peale’s sons, Rembrandt Peale is widely remembered for having painted more than seventy-eight nearly identical “porthole” portraits of George Washington, in which Washington is seen through an oval window in a stone wall.
Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) 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.
Rubens Peale with a Geranium is an 1801 oil painting by American artist Rembrandt Peale. It is a portrait of Peale's younger brother, Rubens , who helped run the family museums and raised plants and animals.
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Rembrandt Peale. The son of portraitist Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale's natural talents had been developed by his father and honed from many hours of copying portraits in Charles Willson Peale's museum. Born on February 22, 1778, Rembrandt Peale shared his birthday with George Washington.
Rembrandt Peale American. ca. 1846. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774. When he was eighteen, Rembrandt Peale painted a portrait of Washington from life in the presence of his father, Charles Willson Peale.
Artist: Rembrandt Peale (American, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1778–1860 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Date: 1826–29. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 26 in. (76.8 x 66 cm) Credit Line: Bequest of Noel Johnston King, 1979. Accession Number: 1980.77
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