The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family: Volume 5: The Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale

by Charles Willson Peale and David C. Ward

This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation's significant cultural and political events.

Peale begins by describing his difficult early years as an apprentice to a saddlemaker, and he then tells how he became an artist, one who eventually painted more than one thousand portraits of the generation that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300075472
• ISBN13: 9780300075472
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"