Rembrandt Peale was born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the second son of Charles Willson Peale. At the age of eight he began to draw. He painted his first portrait at the age of thirteen. At... Read full biography
Rembrandt Peale was born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the second son of Charles Willson Peale. At the age of eight he began to draw. He painted his first portrait at the age of thirteen. At the age of seventeen he painted the last portrait of George Washington to be done from life,... Read full biography
Rembrandt Peale was born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the second son of Charles Willson Peale. At the age of eight he began to draw. He painted his first portrait at the age of thirteen. At the age of seventeen he painted the last portrait of George Washington to be done from life, although there is some ambiguity as to how much help he received from his father. He became a student at classes organized by his father and other Philadelphia artists and also studied the chemistry of... Read full biography
Rembrandt Peale was born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the second son of Charles Willson Peale. At the age of eight he began to draw. He painted his first portrait at the age of thirteen. At the age of seventeen he painted the last portrait of George Washington to be done from life, although there is some ambiguity as to how much help he received from his father. He became a student at classes organized by his father and other Philadelphia artists and also studied the chemistry of pigments at the University of Pennsylvania's new medical school. In 1796, together with his brother Raphaelle, he established a museum in Baltimore, Maryland. He then assisted his father in unearthing and assembling the first complex skeleton of a... Read full biography
Rembrandt Peale was born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the second son of Charles Willson Peale. At the age of eight he began to draw. He painted his first portrait at the age of thirteen. At the age of seventeen he painted the last portrait of George Washington to be done from life, although there is some ambiguity as to how much help he received from his father. He became a student at classes organized by his father and other Philadelphia artists and also studied the chemistry of pigments at the University of Pennsylvania's new medical school. In 1796, together with his brother Raphaelle, he established a museum in Baltimore, Maryland. He then assisted his father in unearthing and assembling the first complex skeleton of a mastodon ever found. In 1802 he visited London, studied under Benjamin West and exhibited at the Royal... Read full biography
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Return to the Heartland: Rediscovering George Van Millett
2011
Mackle, Lynn
140 pages (color)
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
American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
2004
64 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Portraits of the Presidents: The National Portrait Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Voss, Frederick
144 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
The Peale Family Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Miller, Lillian (editor)
320 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992
Danly, Susan
104 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stebbins, Theodore E
470 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1)
1991
Detroit Institute of the Arts
340 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro)
136 pages (color)
Charles Willson Peale New Perspectives/250th Anniversary Celebration
1991
Miller, Lillian B/David C Ward
317 pages
American Views Essays on American Art
1991
Wilmerding, John
357 pages (color)
Masterpieces of American Painting
1991
Wilson, John
34 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Art in Embasies Twenty-Five Years at the State Department
1989
Greenwood, Dougles McCreary
63 pages (color)
American Painting
1989
Schwarz-Philadelphia
64 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Grand Illusions History Painting in America
1988
Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite
174 pages
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 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
American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
1986
Richardson, Edgar P
157 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
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1,102 pages (color)
Rembrandt Peale 1778-1860/A Life in the Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Miller, Lillian/Carol Hevner
121 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984
Harding, Jonathan P
185 pages
Maryland: 350 Years of Art & Architecture (University of Maryland Architecture Department Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Johns, Elizabeth; William Elder III, Josephine Withers, et all
248 pages
National Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Walker, John
606 pages (color)
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Faison, S Lane
1,983 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 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
How the West Was Drawn American Art and the Settling of the Frontier
1982
Glanz, Dawn
205 pages
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
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100 pages (color)
Charles Willson Peale and His Work (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Richardson, Edgar P (others)
272 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981
Williams, William James
256 pages (color)
American Flower Painting
1980
Anderson, Dennis R
84 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters
1978
Davidson, Abraham A
203 pages (color)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting/A Dictionary
1977
Norman, Geraldine
240 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Heritage and Horizon American Painting 1776-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
80 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Chambers, Bruce W
93 pages (color)
Art in the United States Capitol
1976
Editor for Architect of the Capitol
0 pages (color)
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Marcus, George H. (Editor)
166 pages (color)
The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876
1976
Riggs, Timothy A
95 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
Artists and Models
1975
Archives of American Art
40 pages
The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
1975
Buckley, Charles E
377 pages (color)
A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bullard, E John
119 pages (color)
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
Four Generations of Commissions The Peale Collection
1975
Maryland Historical Society
187 pages
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
First Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Steadman, William E
143 pages (color)
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art
1975
Taylor, Joshua C
117 pages (color)
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections
1973
Robinson, Franklin W
219 pages
Masterworks by Pennsylvania Painters in Pennsylvania Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dickson, Harold E
64 pages (color)
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman
64 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971
Graham, F Lanier
111 pages (color)
The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hawes, Louis
143 pages
The Artists of America A Series of Biographical Sketches
1970
Lester, C Edwards
257 pages
The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America
1970
Lynes, Russell
514 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
O! Say Can You See The Story of America through Great Paintings
1970
Ray, Frederick E
189 pages (color)
Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings
1970
Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor)
166 pages
The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes
1969
Canaday, John
1,520 pages (color)
American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection
1969
Curator
127 pages
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
Portraits of Jews By Gilbert Stuart & Other Early American Artists
1969
London, Hannah
197 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans
1969
Stewart, Robert G
93 pages
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
Presidential Portraits
1968
Purdy, Virginia/Daniel J Reed
75 pages
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
52 pages (color)
Early Portraits in Rhode Island (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Rhode Island School of Design
30 pages
The Artist in American Society The Formative Years
1966
Harris, Neil
432 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College
1966
Sadik, Marvin S
222 pages (color)
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
Paintings in the White House A Close-Up TV Program (tie-in)
1965
Jensen, Amy (others)
46 pages (color)
Virgil Barker Memorial Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Miami, U of, Lowe Art Gallery
40 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey
1964
Gerdts, William H
276 pages
The Kirby Collection Historical Paintings
1963
Lafayette College
54 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
American Painters in Paris
1960
Bizardell, Yvon
177 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
Portraiture: The 19th and 20th Centuries (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Trovato, Joseph, (Foreward); William C. Murray (Introduction)
36 pages
Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1956
King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross
63 pages
200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art
1955
Breeskin, Adelyn D
93 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Corcoran Gallery of Art
64 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Treasury of American Drawings
1947
Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman
176 pages
Two Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Baltimore Museum of Art
78 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729-1924 (National Gallery of Art)
1943
Walker, John; James MacGill
112 pages (color)
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania
1940
Addison, Agnes (editor)
67 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Gilbert Stuart and His Pupils From Conversations with Gilbert Stuart
1939
Morgan, John Hii
0 pages
The Main Currents in the Development of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
80 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas
1931
Morgan, John Hill; M Fielding
432 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Shades of Our Ancestors American Profiles and Profilists
1928
Carrick, Alice Van Leer
205 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
1927
Fairman, Charles E
0 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)