Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes, which prevented him from being an artist like most of his siblings. He became Director of his... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes, which prevented him from being an artist like most of his siblings. He became Director of his father's museum in Philadelphia and then of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, which he ran with his... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes, which prevented him from being an artist like most of his siblings. He became Director of his father's museum in Philadelphia and then of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, which he ran with his brother. In 1837, he retired to his father-in-law's estate near Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania and lived as a country gentleman. In 1855, he turned to painting. Some of his works were originals and others... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes, which prevented him from being an artist like most of his siblings. He became Director of his father's museum in Philadelphia and then of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, which he ran with his brother. In 1837, he retired to his father-in-law's estate near Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania and lived as a country gentleman. In 1855, he turned to painting. Some of his works were originals and others copies of paintings by family members. He is best known for game birds in outdoor settings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------. Rubens Peale was born in 1784. Handicapped since childhood with poor eyesight, Rubens... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes, which prevented him from being an artist like most of his siblings. He became Director of his father's museum in Philadelphia and then of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, which he ran with his brother. In 1837, he retired to his father-in-law's estate near Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania and lived as a country gentleman. In 1855, he turned to painting. Some of his works were originals and others copies of paintings by family members. He is best known for game birds in outdoor settings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------. Rubens Peale was born in 1784. Handicapped since childhood with poor eyesight, Rubens never learned to paint formally. Instead, he turned to botany, mineralogy and museum management. In 1810, when his father decided to retire... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (42)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
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
An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Palmer Museum of Art
142 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 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
150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Schwarz, Robert Devlin
130 pages (color)
The Peale Family Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Miller, Lillian (editor)
320 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1)
1991
Detroit Institute of the Arts
340 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)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 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)
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Charles Willson Peale and His Work (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Richardson, Edgar P (others)
272 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
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 American View Art from 1770 to 1978 (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Kennedy Galleries
108 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)
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)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Great Flower Painters Four Centuries of Floral Art
1973
Mitchell, Peter
272 pages (color)
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
The Reality of Appearance: Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Frankenstein, Alfred
156 pages (color)
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes
1969
Canaday, John
1,520 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation)
1965
Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson
162 pages (color)
American Art From American Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Biddle, James
114 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Still-Life Painting in America
1947
Born, Wolfgang
144 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)