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His The Artist in His Museum, painted near the end of his life, is a kind of visual epitaph for his life. The Baroque architect Sir Christopher Wren is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, his most famous project. His epitaph reads, “Si monumentum requires, circumspice”—If you seek his monument, look around.
Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his monumental portraits of George Washington and other Revolutionary War--era figures, and for organizing and opening America’s first natural history and art museums in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Artist: Charles Willson Peale (American, Chester, Maryland 1741–1827 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Date: ca. 1779–81. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 95 x 61 3/4 in. (241.3 x 156.8 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Collis P. Huntington, 1897. Accession Number: 97.33
Throughout his long life, Charles Willson Peale continually strove to improve the civic and artistic life both of his adopted city and the young republic. Besides founding two art academies - including the Pennsylvania Academy - and the nation's first museum, he was the patriarch of an artistic dynasty that carried out his ideals.
Inspired by eighteenth-century Enlightenment ideals celebrating humankind’s capacity to learn and use new information, the artist Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) conceived his Philadelphia Museum. In it, Peale intended the works of man and nature to coexist for the edification of all.
This museum officially opened on 18 July 1786, and collecting, classifying, and exhibiting objects occupied nearly the entire Peale family for many a decade to follow. Without doubt, art and nature were Charles Willson Peale’s great passions in life.
The U.S. South Seas Exploring Expedition (1838-1842), headed by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, was launched by the federal government to explore unfamiliar corners of the globe and establish a far-reaching American presence. Titian Ramsay Peale II and a team of nine scientists accompanied the other 346 men on six ships.
