Rubens Peale
BIRTH
May 4, 1784
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DEATH
July 17, 1865
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER:
Charles Wilson Peale
(1741-1827)
MOTHER:
Rachel Brewer Peale
(1747-1790)
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Peale, Rubens
(1784-1865)
Rubens Peale (1784–1865) was associated with the American Revolutionary era as a painter. The biographical details in this entry are based on the record titled “Rubens Peale.”
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SISTER
Eleanor Peale
BROTHER
Rembrandt Peale
(1778-1860)
SISTER
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson
SISTER
Margaret Bordley Peale
(1772-1772)
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DIED:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Jul 17, 1865
Rubens Peale was born on May 4, 1784 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. 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 Rubens Peale with work or public activity as a painter. 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. Rubens Peale died on Jul 17, 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.