Charles Willson Peale, for all his fame as a portrait painter ... When he went to London to perfect his technique with Benjamin West, he was irritated by the highflown esthetic palaver that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson ... 1,000 ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the most influential of the many images painting during Jefferson's lifetime. It has been publicly ...