Raphaelle Peale
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Raphaelle Peale (sometimes spelled Raphael Peale) (February 17, – March 25, ) was an American painter of still-life, perhaps best-known today for his painting Venus Rising from the Sea — A Deception.
Peale's tightly grouped still lifes are often permeated with a delicate melancholy akin to that which characterized the life of the artist; he was an alcoholic who suffered the effects of arsenic and mercury poisoning caused by his work as a taxidermist in his father's museum. His spare, essential style may have been influenced by the Spanish still lifes he studied in Mexico and by the works of Juan Sánchez Cotán, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in
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Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of the painter Charles Willson Peale and his first wife Rachel Brewer. He grew up in Philadelphia, and spent his life there in a home at the corner of 3rd and Lombard. Like his siblings (all of whom were named after famous artists or scientists), Raphaelle was trained by his father as an artist. Early in his career, t
Raphaelle Peale
Raphaelle Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland in He was the eldest son of Charles Willson Peale, under whom he first studied in Philadelphia.� He was the first of Peale's children to survive infancy. In the early s, he helped his father run the Peale Museum in Philadelphia. In he attempted, together with his brother Rembrandt, to organize a portrait gallery, which apparently failed, for in he had settled in Philadelphia as a miniature painter.
He spent the major part of his life in Philadelphia. Raphaelle was the tragic figure in the Peale household. Full of impish humor and artistic genius, he was never able to earn a living from his art. In the absence of commissions he turned his imagination to helping his father in the invention of stoves, fireplace improvements and wooden bridges, and in the mounting of the larger animals in the museum. In , John L. Hawkins, the English inventor, allowed Raphaelle to take his physionotrace, a profile cutting machine, with him on an extended Southern trip. The device was a huge success and Raphaelle made a small fortune cutting thousands of profiles. But he spent it quickly, and for the most part, like other family membe
Raphaelle Peale ( - )
RaphaellePeale
AncestorsSon of Charles Willson Peale and Rachel (Brewer) Peale
Brother of Angelica Kauffman (Peale) Robinson, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale I, Rubens Peale, Sophonisba Angusciola (Peale) Sellers, Charles Linnaeus Peale[half], Sybilla Miriam Peale[half], Titian Ramsey Peale II[half], Franklin Peale[half] and Elizabeth DePeyster (Peale) Patterson[half]
Husband of Margaret George (McGlathery) Peale — married 25 May in Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Father of Eliza Ferguson (Peale) Stockton and Sophonisba Peale
Family Tree of Raphaelle Peale
Raphaelle
RaphaellePeale
AncestorsSon of Charles Willson Peale and Rachel (Brewer) Peale
Brother of Angelica Kauffman (Peale) Robinson, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale I, Rubens Peale, Sophonisba Angusciola (Peale) Sellers, Charles Linnaeus Peale[half], Sybilla Miriam Peale[half], Titian Ramsey Peale II[half], Franklin Peale[half] and Elizabeth DePeyster (Peale) Patterson[half]
Husband of Margaret George (McGlathery) Peale — married 25 May in Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
Raphaelle Peale
Born 17 February , Annapolis, Md., eldest son of Charles Willson Peale to survive infancy. Studied with his father, with whom he also collaborated on portraits. , trip to South America to collect specimens for "Peale's Museum," Philadelphia. , exhibited five portraits and eight other paintings, probably still-lifes, at the Columbianum, Philadelphia. With his brother Rembrandt, traveled to Charleston, S.C., then Baltimore, where they attempted unsuccessfully to establish a museum, – Late s, painted mostly miniatures.
Brief financial success with the physiognotrace, a profile making machine, with which he toured Virginia, –5. August , hospitalized with alcoholic "delirium"; suffered severely from gout. By late , unable to walk without crutches.
From , concentrated on still-life painting almost exclusively, becoming America's first professional still-life painter. Exhibited frequently at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and elsewhere, especially from – Financially dependent for most of his life on his father. Died after night of heavy drinking, 5 March , Philadelphia.
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