Artist and prominent early American Charles Willson Peale (1741&endash;1827) willed his passions to his equally remarkable children, nieces, and nephew. This engaging pictorial study reveals in-depth these two generations of artists, naturalists, and civic leaders. A combination of essays explores major historical subjects from the perspective of this exceptional family, including the impact on artists of changing political and social ideas, the nature of the family in America, and the uses and functions of art in the young nation. The book is fully illustrated with paintings by the Peales that range from portraits and historical scenes to scientific illustrations, still lifes, and full-blown expressions of Victorian sentimentality, all of which depict life during the first century of the nation's independence. Bibliography. Index.
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From Publishers Weekly
As this splendid catalogue of a traveling exhibition reveals, the Peale family's artistic legacy features hundreds of works of great beauty, variety and human interest. Philadelphia portrait painter, museum founder, inventor and paleontologist Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827), who fought with General Washington's army, made allegorical paintings defending American resistance to British rule. His underrated brother, James Peale (1749-1831), excelled at oil portraits, landscape, history and genre scenes. Among Charles's 17 children were Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), who painted wonderfully romantic views of Niagara Falls; rebellious Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), who drank too much and worked themes of overindulgence into his remarkably fresh canvases; and artist-naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885), precise painter of the American West. Politicians and diplomats faced the incisive brush of Sarah Miriam Peale (1800-1885), James's daughter; her sister, Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878), did naturalistic miniature portraits. Miller, editor of the Peale Family Papers at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, leads a team of art historians in tracing the family's checkered path from the Enlightenment to the Victorian era.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Miller, editor of the Peale Family papers at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, has reached a milestone with the publication of the fourth volume of the Peales' papers, which concludes with the death of patriarch Charles Willson Peale. A popular selection of the complete papers published in microform in 1980, the Peale papers thus far let us hear the voices of one of America's most interesting families. Best known for his natural history museum in Philadelphia, C.W. Peale was also an important artist, inventor, and patriot. His children, who were lesser artists, will be featured in future volumes of papers. The series is an essential purchase for collections in American art and history. Concurrently with the letters, Miller has orchestrated an exhibition, traveling to Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, of the artistic works of C.W. Peale and his optimistically named offspring Titian, Raphaelle, Rubens, and Rembrandt. The catalog features essays by Miller on the lives and nine art historians on individual artists or aspects. The color is good, there is minimal repetition between the essays, and the book is a thorough survey of the Peales' often attractive and important artwork. A pleasing introduction to this important American cultural dynasty, this is recommended for all collections.?Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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