Monday Morning Museum: Rembrandt Peale

Self-Portrait, 1828 by Rembrandt Peale

Rembrandt Peale – Sunday 22 February 1778 Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Wednesday 3 October 1860 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

American Neoclassical Painter

Michael Angelo and Emma Clara Peale, circa 1826

“Peale's studies of French Neoclassical painting during a sojourn in Paris (1808–10) helped him to break free from the British eighteenth-century conventions that he had learned from his portraitist father, Charles Willson Peale. Peale's resplendent palette, along with his ability to render warm flesh tones, manipulate light, and emphasize textures suggests that while in France, he studied not only the works of modern painters, but also paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and other Baroque masters. Michael Angelo (1814–1833) and Emma Clara (1816–1839) were the youngest of the artist's nine children.” – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Next Monday’s Artist – John Marin

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