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- 1741-1827. American artist, head of a large
- family of painters. His portraits of leading
- figures in the Revolutionary War include the
- earliest known portrait of George Washington
- 1772. Peale was also a naturalist, interested
- in paleontology and taxidermy, and an
- inventor. Five of Peale's 17 children also
- became painters - Titian Peale (1799-1885),
- animal painter; Rubens Peale (1784-1865),
- still-life painter; Raphaelle Peale
- (1774-1825), still-life and portrait painter;
- Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), portrait and
- historical painter; and Franklin Peale
- (1795-1890), natural history painter. His
- brother James Peale (1749-1831) and James's
- daughters were portrait painters and
- miniaturists.
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