For example, Jefferson once wrote a letter to Charles Wilson Peale explaining that, although a Smithsonian-style national museum would be a wonderful resource, he could not support the use of federal funds to construct and maintain such a project.

Charles Willson Peale ( 1741 – 1827 ), artist, patriot, and founder of a major American art dynasty, named several of his children after notable European artists, including a daughter, Angelica Kauffman Peale.

A trompe-l ' oeil style of still-life painting, originating mainly in Philadelphia, included Raphaelle Peale ( one of several artists of the Peale family ), William Michael Harnett, and John F. Peto.

Noted for his " itinerant " nature, Peale visited Europe several times to study art ( Ward ).

The museum contains several works of Art from the Baltimore area including portraiture by Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, and other members of the renowned Peale family ; silver from Baltimore's prominent silver manufacturing company Samuel Kirk & Son ; American Baltimore album quilts ; and painted furniture by John Finlay and Hugh Finlay of Baltimore.

During the late 1960s Peale referring to the anti Vietnam War demonstrations and the perceived laxity of that era blamed these events on Dr. Spock's books claiming that " the U. S. was paying the price of two generations that followed the Dr. Spock baby plan of instant gratification of needs.

Amid the economic hardship of the War of 1812, President Jefferson — who promised to buy the 1795 portrait of Washington, but could not keep his promise — instead encouraged Peale to go to Europe, as " we have genius among us but no unemployed wealth to reward it ".

Several of its earliest members, including William Bartram, John Godman, Richard Harlan, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, William Maclure, Titian Peale, Charles Pickering, Thomas Say, and Alexander Wilson were among the pioneers or recognized authorities in their respective areas of study.

Charles Willson Peale painted a miniature of Washington — for which he charged his usual “ 56 Dollars ”— and presented it to Martha, along with painting other miniatures of Washington.

He created the first major museum in the United States, the Peale Museum in Philadelphia, which housed the young nation's only collection of North American natural history specimens.

Most notably, the museum contained a large variety of birds which Peale himself acquired, and it was the first to display North American mastodon bones ( which in Peale's time were referred to as mammoth bones ; these common names were amended by Georges Cuvier in 1800, and his proposed usage is that employed today ).

Peale and Jefferson collaborated on refinements to this device, which enabled a copy of a handwritten letter to be produced simultaneously with the original.

In Paris, Peale studied the works of Jacques Louis David, which influenced him to paint in the Neoclassical style.

In 1824 Peale painted the Patriæ Pater, in which a rectangle supporting an oval wreath surrounds the eye-catching image of George Washington.

Like his older brothers, Peale helped his father in the preservation of the museum's specimens for display, which included contributions from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

In the novel, which is more or less a roman à clef, D ' Invilliers represents the poet John Peale Bishop, a friend of Fitzgerald's at Princeton and a member of the class of 1917.

This collection, which Richard Saunders has termed " America's first art gallery ", provided much of the early artistic education for Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull.

Ironically James Peale painted a version of " Battle of Princeton " which shows in the background a very indistinct portrait of Mercer being helped from the ground.

Barnum and Charles Willson Peale and his sons introduced the so-called " Edutainement " which was a moralistic education realized through sensational freakshows, theater and circus performances, and many other means of entertainment.

For about two years beginning in 1803, Peale toured Virginia with the " physiognotrace ", a profile making machine, with which he was briefly successful.

Franklin Peale was sent to Europe to study advanced coin making technologies which were brought back and implemented, increasing productivity and quality.

The series of films entitled A Chain of Flowers draws its name from the quote by Charles Willson Peale: The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

Among Dewey's neighbors on Quaker Hill were the famous reporter and radio broadcaster Lowell Thomas, the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, and the legendary CBS News journalist Edward R. Murrow.

Peale & Co ; between 1903 and 1906 further editions were issued by the Americana Corp. and the Scientific American Compiling Department, with George Edwin Rines appointed managing editor in 1903.

Peale's younger brother James Peale and four of Peale's sons — Raphaelle Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale and Titian Peale — were also artists.

Although Coué ’ s teachings were, during his lifetime, more popular in Europe than in the United States, many Americans who adopted his ideas and methods, such as Norman Vincent Peale, Robert H. Schuller, and W. Clement Stone, became famous in their own right by spreading his words.

Among Hayden's party were photographer Jackson and painter Thomas Moran, geologist George Allen, mineralogist Albert Peale, topographical artist Henry Elliot, botanists, and other scientists who collected numerous wildlife specimens and other natural data.

Chester, on Kent Island was the birthplace of Charles Wilson Peale, Famous American Artist, Naturalist and Revolutionary.

Hawkins & Peale patented a polygraph in the US in 1803, and beginning in 1804 Thomas Jefferson collaborated with them in working on improvements in the machine.

Martha Washington by Rembrandt Peale, probably 1853, based on a portrait by his father, Charles Willson Peale ( National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery, Washington )

Most of the main reservation is composed of Squaxin Island, but there is also a small part of at Kamilche, in addition to two parcels of off-reservation trust land near Kamilche, as well as a plot of across Pickering Passage from Squaxin Island and a plot of on Harstine Island, across Peale Passage.

One son, Franklin Peale, born on October 15, 1795, became the Chief Coiner at the Philadelphia Mint.

From 1802 to 1826-27, artist Charles Willson Peale housed his museum of natural history specimens ( including the skeleton of a mastodon ) and portraits of famous Americans, on the second floor of the Old State House and in the Assembly Room.

Rembrandt Peale was born the third of six surviving children ( eleven had died ) to his mother, Rachel Brewer, and father, Charles Willson Peale in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1778.

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.

Peale subsequently attempted to capitalize on the success of what quickly became known as his " Porthole " picture.

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.

* Rembrandt Peale on Artcyclopedia. com

Two of its earliest members include Thomas Say, regarded as the father of American entomology, and Titian Peale, a leading natural history illustrator and the chief naturalist on the United States Exploring Expedition ( 1834 – 1842 ).

Peale was first exposed to the study of natural history while assisting his father on his many excursions in search of specimens for the Peale Museum.

In 1838, two years after Charles Darwin had returned from his voyage on the Beagle, Peale took leave from his work at the museum to sail aboard the Peacock as chief naturalist for the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 led by Lt. Charles Wilkes.

Peale went on to work for the U. S. Patent Office and to become a pioneer American photographer.

Peale House on Belfield, the office of the President of La Salle