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Show Famous Maryland Artists. Maryland has reason to be proud of the two artists, Charles and Item-. , & brnndt Penle. The former was bora at Chestertown, Md in 1741. Likg , f;lj. Robert Fulton, he was both artist andj I ( -inventor. Charles Peale started llfe V4y as a saddler, (hen silversmith, watchi t; maker and carver. He went to Bos ton and studied under the celebrated; Copley, and later in London unden Benjamin Wes. Then came the honorj of painting te,'fjrst portrait of Wash-, ington as a Virginia colonel in 1772. During the revolution he commanded ai company at the battle of Trenton and; Germantown and was a member of , the Pennsylvania convention of 1777; He, however, rendered a greater serv-i Ice to posterity by painting the portraits por-traits of the leading officers of the Revolution, nnd was one of the promoters pro-moters of the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. This most versatile man, besides Inventing a great variety of machines, was the first American main ufacturer of enamel teeth. He died In. Philadelphia in 1827, but his art lived In the person of his famous son, Rem-, brandt Peale. |