Born and raised in Philadelphia, Titian Peale became one of America's earliest and foremost animal painters and naturalist illustrators. As an expedition artists, museum curator and collector, illustrator and expedition artist, he traveled including the upper Mississippi River, Rocky Mountains, Florida and the northern regions of South America.

Titian Peale grew up in the atmosphere of the natural science museum founded by his father, Charles Willson Peale, and Titian showed early talent sketching animals. He studied anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania where he made drawings of specimens in the University's collections. In 1817 at age 18, he was elected to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and one year later, ac...