Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic

by David C. Ward and Charles Willson Peale

Son of a convicted felon whose early death left the family impoverished, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) went on to lead a staggeringly full and successful life. A portrait painter who produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic The Artist in His Museum, Peale was also a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historian, an inventor, and the proprietor of one of the first modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520239601
• ISBN13: 9780520239609
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"