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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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