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Charles Willson Peale Works Online
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Original works by Charles Willson Peale available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Charles Willson Peale at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Self-Portrait with Angelica and Portrait of Rachel, ca.1782-85
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Charles Willson Peale at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Mrs. Walter Stewart (Deborah McClenachan)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
William Buckland
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
David Rittenhouse
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
4 portraits online
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
General George Washington
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
George Washington, ca.1780-82
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
James Madison, 1792
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Portrait of Robert Hazlehurst, 1782
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia
David Gelston, 1792
Maryland State Archives
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
John Beale Bordley
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Elizabeth McClure
Charles Willson Peale at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Portrait of Benjamin Rush
Portrait of David Rittenhouse
Charles Willson Peale at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
3 portraits
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Charles Waterton, 1824
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New England Merchant, 1765
New-York Historical Society
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
George Washington
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Robinson, 1795
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
The Huntington Library, California
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Portrait of Isabella and John Stewart, ca.1775
U.S. Senate Art Collection
George Washington at Princeton
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
William Smith and His Grandson, 1788
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Charles Pettit, 1792
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Charles Pettit, 1792
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Charles Willson Peale at The Art Renewal Center
Charles Willson Peale at The Athenaeum 
40 works online by Peale
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
Charles Willson Peale at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Maryland ArtSource
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Charles Willson Peale 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Captain James Josiah, 1787
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston, ca.1780
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
America's Old Masters: West, Copley, Peale and Stuart
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