词条 | Peale, Rembrandt |
释义 | Peale, Rembrandt American painter born February 22, 1778, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, U.S. died October 3, 1860, Philadelphia American painter, writer, and portraitist of prominent figures in Europe and the post-Revolutionary United States. ![]() Apparently because of some unfavourable criticism, Peale ceased to paint for several years, and, following his father's example, in 1814 he opened a museum and portrait gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. Known as the Baltimore Museum, it was where Peale exhibited the first works to be illuminated by gaslight. He sold his museum in 1822; it is now known as the Peale Museum and is devoted to local history. When Peale resumed his painting he wanted to move beyond portraiture, so he turned to formal subject pieces. Peale culminated this phase of his painting with The Court of Death (1820), which he exhibited throughout the country. He promoted his portrait of George Washington (1823) with equal vigour, seeking to replace the popularly accepted likeness of Washington by Gilbert Stuart (Stuart, Gilbert) with his own work. He had painted Washington from life in 1795, and he later painted 76 replicas of this likeness. Peale's painting and writing—including Notes on Italy (1831) and Portfolio of an Artist (1839)—occupied him for the remainder of his life. Additional Reading Lillian B. Miller et al., In Pursuit of Frame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778–1860 (1991). |
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