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James Peale
American Realist Painter
1749-1831
Education: he studied under his brother Charles Willson Peale
Mediums - oil on panel or canvas, watercolor on ivory
Cause of Death - heart failure
James Peale Quotation
The people never give up
their love of the painted
portrait but under some
delusion of how they
actually look to others ~
James Peale
James Peale Biography
James Peale was born in 1749
in Chestertown, Maryland.
His father was an English
immigrant schoolteacher.
James began working at a
local saddelry in 1762, but
longed for the smell of
linseed oil and the feel of
a brush.
After four years of
drudgery he began
his apprenticeship as a
cabinet maker. James later
became his assistant and
pupil to his older brother
Charles Willson Peale. The
American Revolution swept the
Peale brothers off to battle
and James became a first
lieutenant in General
Smallwood's Maryland
regiment in the Continental
Army. In 1782 he married
the beautiful and talented
Mary Claypoole. The happy
union produced six
children, four of whom were
artists.
By 1785 Peale
had distinguished himself as
a skillful miniature painter,
specializing in
portraiture and still-life.
Peale painted several portraits of George
Washington and is considered
one of the greatest American
Colonial era artists.
His masterpieces hang in the collection of the
New York Historical Society
as well as in
Independence Hall in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..
James Peale died in 1831.
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