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The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family cover the period from 1740 to 1885. In their entirety, they present a picture of a renowned American family participating in and contributing to the development of the cultural life of the nation through its first century of existence. Charles Willson Peale, foremost American artist of his time, painted more than 1,000 portraits of men and women of the Revolutionary period. He also lectured on natural history and published treatises on health and domestic happiness. He helped to found institutions for the encouragement of the arts and founded the first scientifically organized museum of natural history opened to the American public. Among his many correspondents we find such prominent statesmen, artists, and scientists of his day as George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, David Rittenhouse, and Georges Cuvier. Peale’s children emulated their father in their artistic and scientific interests, and several achieved prominence in their own right. As a family whose story can be traced and documented through letters, diaries, memoranda, sketches, and works of art, the Peales occupy a special place in American history, paralleling in the cultural arena the uniqueness of the Adams family in the political.

The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family cover the period from 1740 to 1885. In their entirety, they present a picture of a renowned American family participating in and contributing to the development of the cultural life of the nation through its first century of existence.

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