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John Stricker, by Rembrandt Peale, 1817-1818. Oil on canvas. 38 7/64 x 30 63/64 in. (96.8 x 78.7 cm). Maryland Historical Society, City Life Museums Collection, Accession: CA683.
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St. Cecilia at the Organ, by Rembrandt Peale after Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1829-1830. Oil on canvas affixed to panel. 56 39/64 x 40 35/64 in. (143.8 x 103.0 cm.) Maryland Historical Society, City Life Museums Collection, Accession: MA4256.
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Andrew Jackson, by Rembrandt Peale, 1819. Oil on canvas. 38 27/64 x 31 7/32 in. (97.6 x 79.3 cm.) Maryland Historical Society, Accession: CA679.
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Medium/Discipline: Painting, Works on Paper
Birthplace: Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Maryland Affiliation: Depicts Maryland subjects, Active while in residence
Prominent Theme: Portraits; History
Style/Period: Romanticism; Neo-Classical
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Biography: Rembrandt Peale was renowned for his idealized portraits of prominent Baltimoreans as well as his establishment of the Peale Museum, a museum of paintings and natural history, in Baltimore. His most well-known painting is that of George Washington dating to 1823 that was purchased by Congress and still hangs in the U.S. Capitol.Rembrandt Peale was the second son of Charles Willson Peale. He was taught painting by his father. From 1795-1800, he traveled with his brother, Raphaelle, in Maryland and the South, painting portraits. After this, he traveled to London, England, where he studied with Benjamin West for three years, and then to Paris, where he did a number of portraits for the Peale Museum in Philadelphia. Rembrandt Peale lived in Baltimore from 1813-22; in 1814 he established a Museum and Gallery of Paintings (called the Municipal Museum during the 20th Century) at 225 North Holliday Street and pioneered in the use of illuminating gas. After another trip to Europe, Rembrandt settled in New York in 1834 where he succeeded Trumbull as President of the American Academy. He was one of the founding members of the National Academy of Design. He was a lithographer, natural-history lecturer and an accomplished writer who contributed articles to newspapers and wrote two books, one about natural history and one entitled Reminiscences of Art and Artists. Rembrandt Peale's Baltimore museum came to be referred to as the Peale Museum, and eventually closed with the rest of Baltimore's City Life Museums. The Maryland Historical Society is the steward of the collection so that the Peale Museum holdings can be displayed for the public as part of exhibitions.
Taught By: his father, Charles Willson Peale; Benjamin West in London
Art-related Employment: curator; engraver; painter
Other Employment: writer
Selected References: Pleasants, J. Hall. Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art), 1945.
Maryland Institutions Holding Artworks: Baltimore Museum of Art; Maryland Historical Society; Walters Art Museum
Maryland Institutions Holding Biographical Material: Maryland Historical Society: Fowble, Eleanore. "Rembrandt Peale in Baltimore," Thesis, 1965, ND237 P2 8F5
Maryland Institutions Holding Autobiographical Resources, Archives, Personal Papers, Ephemera, or Other Primary Source Material: Maryland Historical Society: Rembrandt Peale Letters v. 1-2 transcribed, unpublished.
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