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Show Famous Maryland Artists. Maryland has reason to be proud of! i he two artists, Charles and Item-, lirandt Peale. The former was born at Chestertown, Md., in 1741. Like! Uohert Fulton, he was both artist andj inventor. Charles Peale started life) as a saddler, hen silversmith, wntch-i maker and carver. He went to Bos ton and studied under the celebrated; Copley, and later In London undert Benjamin West, Then came the honon nf painting the (Irst portrait of Wash-ngton Wash-ngton as a Virginia colonel in 1772. During the revolution ho commanded a company at the battle of Trenton nnj iiorniantown nnd was a . member of he Pennsylvania convention of 1777; He, however, rendered a greater serv-i re to posterity by painting, the por-raits por-raits of the leading o.Ticers of the devolution, and was one of the pro-inters pro-inters of the Academy of Fine Arls in 'hiladclphia. This most versatile man, psides inventing a great variety of midlines, was the first American man-i ifacturer of enamel teelb. Ho died la 'liiladelphia in 1S27, but his art lived i the person of his famous son, Rem-i randt Peale, |