Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale ( born April 15, 1741 St. Paul's Parish in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, † February 22, 1827 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American portrait and landscape painter.

After his training in Boston with John Singleton Copley, the undisputed important as a portrait and landscape painter of the time, he went to London and studied for three years at Benjamin West. Peale's works are known for a very great details and an observation of light and its effect.

Together with those of Frederic Remington presented Peale's works constitute a basis for the early abstract works by Roy Lichtenstein, who strongly distorted.

Peale and his son Rembrandt Peale were among the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.