Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Charles Peale Polk was orphaned at age ten and grew up in Philadelphia with his prominent artist uncle, Charles Willson Peale. He learned to paint from him. From 1787 to... Read full biography
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Charles Peale Polk was orphaned at age ten and grew up in Philadelphia with his prominent artist uncle, Charles Willson Peale. He learned to paint from him. From 1787 to 1818, he tried to earn a living as a portrait artist and commercial sign painter, moving back and... Read full biography
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Charles Peale Polk was orphaned at age ten and grew up in Philadelphia with his prominent artist uncle, Charles Willson Peale. He learned to paint from him. From 1787 to 1818, he tried to earn a living as a portrait artist and commercial sign painter, moving back and forth between Philadelphia and Baltimore. His specialty became portraits of Revolutionary heroes such as George Washington, General Lafayette and Benjamin Franklin. He made many copies of these... Read full biography
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Charles Peale Polk was orphaned at age ten and grew up in Philadelphia with his prominent artist uncle, Charles Willson Peale. He learned to paint from him. From 1787 to 1818, he tried to earn a living as a portrait artist and commercial sign painter, moving back and forth between Philadelphia and Baltimore. His specialty became portraits of Revolutionary heroes such as George Washington, General Lafayette and Benjamin Franklin. He made many copies of these originals, which he offered for sale. The copies he made of Washington, over 50, were from an original done from life by Charles Willson Peale. His most famous work was his Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted at Monticello in 1799. He stayed in Virginia... Read full biography
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Charles Peale Polk was orphaned at age ten and grew up in Philadelphia with his prominent artist uncle, Charles Willson Peale. He learned to paint from him. From 1787 to 1818, he tried to earn a living as a portrait artist and commercial sign painter, moving back and forth between Philadelphia and Baltimore. His specialty became portraits of Revolutionary heroes such as George Washington, General Lafayette and Benjamin Franklin. He made many copies of these originals, which he offered for sale. The copies he made of Washington, over 50, were from an original done from life by Charles Willson Peale. His most famous work was his Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted at Monticello in 1799. He stayed in Virginia about a year, working in Richmond and Winchester in addition to Monticello.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (44)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and His Likeness (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Simmons, Linda Crocker
0 pages (color)
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary
78 pages (color)
The Peale Family Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Miller, Lillian (editor)
320 pages (color)
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Miles, Ellen G
419 pages
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Editors
56 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989
Pennington, Estill Curtis
200 pages (color)
American Painting
1989
Schwarz-Philadelphia
64 pages (color)
A Century of Philadelphia Artists Frank S. Schwarz & Son (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Hall, Audrey
64 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie
280 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981
Rumford, Beatrix
295 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
Four Generations of Commissions The Peale Collection
1975
Maryland Historical Society
187 pages
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
Portraits of Jews By Gilbert Stuart & Other Early American Artists
1969
London, Hannah
197 pages
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Corcoran Gallery of Art
64 pages
From Colony to Nation (Exhibition US works to War of 1812) (Exhibition catalog)
1949
Art Institute of Chicago
140 pages
Two Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Baltimore Museum of Art
78 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas
1931
Morgan, John Hill; M Fielding
432 pages
Shades of Our Ancestors American Profiles and Profilists
1928
Carrick, Alice Van Leer
205 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)