The century after the United States established its independence saw artists making works that were crucial to forming the country’s cultural identity. A new installation at the two-hundred-year-old ...

WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson Peale. Peale ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the most influential of the many images painting during Jefferson's lifetime. It has been publicly ...

The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers, a historical editing project established in 1974, is an integral part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. The project has collected ...

click image for close-up Like many of Charles Willson Peale's portraits, his 1783 oil painting of Benjamin Rush sought to portray the intellectual qualities and political sensibilities of the subject.

click image for close-up Although he was known primarily as a portraitist, Charles Willson Peale's The Accident on Lombard Street provides an example of how Peale used his work to make statements ...

The State Department recently verified that it was painted in 1779 by American painter Charles Willson Peale. “Well, it’s an ...

In 2018 I published an article about my discovery of three miniatures of John Hancock and his two children who died young (Figs. 1–3).

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