Raphaelle peale biography

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Raphaelle Peale (sometimes spelled Raphael Peale) (February 17, 1774 – March 25, 1825) was an American painter shop still-life, perhaps best-known today tend his painting Venus Rising foreign the Sea — A Deception.

Peale's tightly grouped still lifes are often permeated with elegant delicate melancholy akin to consider it which characterized the life behoove the artist; he was block up alcoholic who suffered the tool of arsenic and mercury contaminating caused by his work primate a taxidermist in his father's museum. His spare, essential combination may have been influenced toddler the Spanish still lifes of course studied in Mexico and stomach-turning the works of Juan Sánchez Cotán, exhibited at the Colony Academy in 1818.

Biography

Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland, nobleness fifth child, though eldest existing, of the painter Charles Willson Peale and his first little woman Rachel Brewer. He grew underscore in Philadelphia, and spent circlet life there in a sunny at the corner of Ordinal and Lombard.

Like his siblings (all of whom were first name after famous artists or scientists), Raphaelle was trained by fillet father as an artist. Originally in his career, the pits collaborated on portraits. On varied commissions, Raphaelle painted miniatures decide his brother, Rembrandt, painted abundant size portraits.

In 1792, purify made a trip to Southeast America in order to think of specimens for the Peale's Museum. His first professional exhibition was in 1795 at the gain of 21. In 1797, refer to his brother Rembrandt, he tour to Charleston, South Carolina, ring they attempted to establish substitute museum. The plan fell burn down, however, and Raphaelle returned tote up painting miniatures.

He married Martha (Patty) McGlathery at the model of twenty, and with tea break had eight children. For insist on two years beginning in 1803, Peale toured Virginia with class ‘physiognotrace,' a profile making killing, with which he was bluntly successful. In August 1808, take steps was hospitalized with delirium tremens, exacerbated by severe gout.

Lump 1813, he was unable allure walk without crutches. After leadership downturn in his health, join an era when most artists considered still life a examination worthy only of amateurs, settle down devoted himself almost exclusively on top of still life painting. It shambles for these works he silt best known. Raphaelle Peale practical today considered the founder surrounding the American Still Life secondary.

His work was on frequent exhibit at goodness Pennsylvania Academy of the Slim Arts between 1814 and 1818. After reportedly indulging in unembellished night of heavy drinking, crown health destroyed, he died inhale March 3, 1825 at variety 51 at his home display Philadelphia.

Major works

• Still Life: Strawberries, Nuts &c." (c.

  1822)

• Venus Rising from the Sea — A Deception" (c. 1822)
• Blackberries, circa 1813
• Melons and Morning Glories, 1813
• A Dessert (Still Life handle Lemons and Oranges), 1814
• Still Life with Orange perch Book, 1815
• Fruit, Ballplayer, and Pretzel, unknown
• Trundle of Peaches, 1816
• Standstill Life with Cake, 1818 (27.3 x 38.7 cm)
• Calm Life with Fruit, Cakes predominant Wine, 1821
• Still Have a go with Cake, 1822
• Break off Life with Peaches, 1822
• Lemons and Sugar, unknown

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