Rubens Peale
Rubens Peale | |
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Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | May 4, 1784
Died | July 17, 1865 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 81)
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Pennsylvania |
Spouse | Eliza Burd Patterson |
Rubens Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865) was an American museum administrator and artist. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of artist-naturalist Charles Willson Peale. Due to his weak eyesight, he did not practice painting seriously until the last decade of his life, when he painted still life.
Early life and education
He was the fourth son of Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes and, unlike most of his siblings, did not set out to be an artist. He traveled with the family in 1802 to the
Career
Peale opened his own museum in New York on October 26, 1825. The
In October 1855, he began keeping a journal,[8] and he turned to still life painting, as an extension of his interest in natural history.[10] In 1864, he returned to Philadelphia, and studied landscape painting with Edward Moran.[11] In the last ten years of his life, he produced 130 paintings.
Diary entries on the death of Abraham Lincoln
April 15, 1865:
sad news of the murder of President Lincon [sic], he was shot while attending a performance at Fords' Theater last night in Washington. The assassin entered his private box and shot him in back of his head and then escaped, the assassin's name is ______,
April the 22nd:
The corpse arrived this afternoon from Harrisburg and it was dark, and although the square was brilliantly illuminated with greek lights each side of the great walk Red, Blue & White, which made a most brilliant appearance and lighted up the wholes square & streets yet much of the procession near lost to us. The crowd was so dense in Walnut Street that police could scarcely keep the crowd back.
April the 23rd:
a fine opportunity of viewing the corpse and decorations of the hall, which was totally covered with black cloth except for the statue & portraits of General Washington & wife. I staid [sic] one hour and left Mary gazing on the corpse, she intending to paint a portrait of him ...[12]
Personal life
On March 6, 1820, he married Eliza Burd Patterson (December 6, 1795 – 1864)
Legacy
In 1985, the National Gallery of Art paid $4.07 million for Rubens Peale with a Geranium, an 1801 portrait by his brother Rembrandt Peale.[18] This set a record for an American work of art sold at auction.
In 2007, Princeton University Art Museum bought Rubens Peale's Still Life With Watermelon, in honor of John Wilmerding.[19]
References
- ISBN 0-393-05700-3.
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- ISBN 978-0-393-05700-3.
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- ^ "History". Portal.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ISBN 0-931201-15-2.
- ISBN 978-0-472-08792-1.
- ^ "The Bowery Boys: New York City History: The forgotten museum of Rubens Peale". Theboweryboys.blogspot.com. 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
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- ^ "The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco". Tfaoi.com. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^ "Rubens Peale Works on Sale at Auction & Biography". Invaluable.com. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
- ^ "U.S. President 1861-1865, Selections from the Archives of American Art". Aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^ Uriah James Jones, William Henry Egle (1899). History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley. Harrisburg publishing company. pp. 364–365.
- ^ "MARY JANE PEALE DEAD.; She Was the Last of Family of Famous Portrait Painters". The New York Times. November 23, 1902.
- ISBN 978-1-4191-1324-6.
- ^ George Adolphus Hanson (1876). Old Kent. John P. Des Forges. p. 333.
Rubens Peale.
- ^ Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsell (1893). American ancestry. Vol. 8. J. Munsell's sons. p. 133.
- ^ "PEALE PAINTING SETS RECORD FOR U.S. ART". Philadelphia Inquirer. December 6, 1985. p. D01.
- ^ Smithson, Ruta (2007-05-07). "Wilmerding to leave a legacy of Pop art to Princeton". Princeton University. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
External links
- Peale, Rubens, Papers. 1802-03., Originals and microfiche in The Collected Letters of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. Lillian B. Miller, ed. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Microform, 1980. England.
- PEALE COLLECTION, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION, MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
- Mary Jane Peale and Peale family selected papers, (ca. 1815)-1897, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Art
- Rubens Peale, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Rubens Peale, The Athenaeum
- Peale Family Collection, The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, The Winterthur Library
- Rembrandt Peale (artist), 1778-1860, Rubens Peale with a Geranium
- Rubens Peale, ca. 1800, Raphaelle Peale, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Rubens Peale (1784–1865), Still Life with Watermelon, 1865