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Rubens Peale

Rubens Peale (1784 - 1865) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Rubens Peale is known for Still life, wildlife, landscape.

Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes, which prevented him from being an artist like most of his siblings. He became Director of his father's museum in Philadelphia and then of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, which he ran with his brother. In 1837, he retired to his father-in-law's estate near Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania and lived as a country gentleman. In 1855, he turned to painting. Some of his works were originals and others copies of paintings by family members. He is best known for game birds in outdoor settings.

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Rubens Peale was born in 1784. Handicapped since childhood with poor eyesight, Rubens never learned to paint formally. Instead, he turned to botany, mineralogy and museum management. In 1810, when his father decided to retire to a farm in Germantown, he left the Philadelphia Museum in Rubens' hands, in return for a yearly al   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1589 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Rubens Peale

   Publications  Book References:  43
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Rubens Peale
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Jean & Alvin Snowiss Collection of April 2003 Robinson and Mazow Yes
American Art Review The Peale Family February 1997 Ar editors Yes
Art & Antiques The Prodigious Peales November 1996 Bell, Judith Yes
43 Book References for Rubens Peale
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Palmer Museum of Art An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
142 Yes
2002 Beal, Graham American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Schwarz, Robert Devlin 150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
130 Yes
1996 Miller, Lillian (editor) The Peale Family Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870
(Exhibition catalog)
320 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1991 Detroit Institute of the Arts American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1) 340 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1984 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists 288 No
1982 Richardson, Edgar P (others) Charles Willson Peale and His Work
(Exhibition catalog)
272 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1981 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries 163 No
1981 Gerdts, William H Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939 292 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Haverstock, Mary Sayre An American Bestiary 248 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Kennedy Galleries The American View Art from 1770 to 1978
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)
252 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)
322 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Mitchell, Peter Great Flower Painters Four Centuries of Floral Art 272 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 Yes
1970 Frankenstein, Alfred The Reality of Appearance: Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
156 Yes
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
220 Yes
1969 Canaday, John The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes 1520 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation) 162 Yes
1963 Biddle, James American Art From American Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
114 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1947 Born, Wolfgang Still-Life Painting in America 144 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
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