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Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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ct them, and made the shagreen cases; he was asoldier, legislator, and lecturer; a preserver of animals, whose deficiencies he supplied withglass eyes and artificial limbs; when he found that his efficiency as a lecturer was lessenedby the loss of his front teeth, he supplied their place first by teeth made of ivory, and laterby porcelain, and so great was his skill that he was employed to do the same good turn forothers. Finally, as his son Rembrandt says of him, he was a mild, benevolent, and goodman. His sons, Raphael, Titian, and Rembrandt, may be mentioned in passing. Dunlap saVs that Raphael Peale was a painter of portraits in oil and of miniatures, but excelled more in compositions of still-life. He may, perhaps, be considered the first, in point of time, who III 224 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. adopted this branch of painting in America, and many of liis pictures are in the collections ofmen of taste, and are highly esteemed. He died early in life, perhaps at the age of forty.
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ALLEGORICAL FIGURE. FROM THE COLUMBUS. SKETCH FOR THE PAINTING IN THE CAPITOL AT ALBANY, NEW YORK, BY WILLIAM M. HUNT. BY PERMISSION OF MRS. HUNT. Two of his pictures are in the Pennsylvania Academy, and they are very well painted. Thecoloring is excellent, the execution a little hard. We reproduce one of these paintings: the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 225 Fox-grapes and Peaches (see page 179). The subject of the other is Fox-grapes andApples. Another son, Titian, apj)lied his talent as a draughtsman to animal subjects.Dunlap says he made the drawings for the first volume of Charles Lucien Bonapartes American Ornithology, and a part of those in the fourth volume. The best known of Charles AVillson Peales sons, Rembrandt Peale, was born, says Dunlap,on the 22d of February, 1778, at a farm-house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, whither hismother had fled from PhiladeliDhia at the approach of the British army. His father waswith the forces under Washington, serving as captain of a compan

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