Charles Wilson Peale
BIRTH
Apr 15, 1741
Chester, Maryland
DEATH
February 22, 1827
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
FATHER:
Charles Peale
(1709-1750)
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Peale, Charles Wilson
(1741-1827)
Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, soldier, and naturalist whose portraits preserved many leaders of the Revolution. He served in the Pennsylvania militia during the war and painted George Washington and other officers from life.
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WIFE
Rachel Brewer Peale
(1747-1790)
WIFE
Hannah Moore Peale
(1755-1821)
WIFE
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale
(1765-1804)
Eleanor Peale
Margaret Bordley Peale
(1772-1772)
Rembrandt Peale
(1778-1860)
Charles Linnaeus Peale
(1794-1832)
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson
Raphaelle Peale
(1774-1825)
Rubens Peale
(1784-1865)
Franklin Peale
(1795-1870)
Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers
Angelica Kauffmann Peale Robinson
(1775-1853)
Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers
(1786-1859)
Titian Peale
(1799-1885)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Valley Forge National Historic Park | 1400 N Outer Line Dr, King of Prussia, PA 19406 | MUSEUM | ||
George Washington's Mount Vernon | 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121 | MUSEUM | ||
Lt Col Nathaniel Ramsay Marker | 241 Market St, Charlestown, MD 21914 | MARKER |
DIED:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feb 22, 1827
Charles Wilson Peale was born on Apr 15, 1741 in Chester, Maryland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Charles Wilson Peale with work or public activity as a painter, soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Charles Wilson Peale died on Feb 22, 1827 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.