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See also:PEALE, See also:CHARLES WILLSON (1741-1826) , See also:American portrait painter, celebrated especially for his portraits of See also:Washington, was See also:born in See also:Queen See also:Anne See also:county, See also:Maryland, on the 16th of See also:April 1741. During his See also:infancy the See also:family removed to Chestertown, See also:Kent county, Maryland, and after the See also:death of his See also:father (a See also:country schoolmaster) in 1750 they removed to See also:Annapolis. Here, at the See also:age of 13, he was apprenticed to a saddler. About 1764 he began seriously to study See also:art. He got some assistance from Gustavus Hesselius, a See also:Swedish portrait painter then living near Annapolis, and from See also:John Singleton See also:Copley in See also:Boston; and in 1767-1770 he studied under See also:Benjamin See also:West in See also:London. In 1770 he opened a studio in See also:Philadelphia, and met with immediate success. In 1772, at See also:Mount See also:Vernon, Peale painted a three-quarters-length study of Washington (the earliest known portrait of him), in the See also:uniform of a See also:colonel of See also:Virginia See also:militia. This See also:canvas is now in the See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee Memorial See also:Chapel of Washington and Lee University. He painted various other portraits of Washington; probably the best known in a full-length, which was made in 1778, and of which Peale made many copies. This portrait had been ordered by the See also:Continental See also:Congress, which, however, made no See also:appropriation for it, and eventually it was bought for a private collection in Philadelphia. Peale painted two miniatures of Mrs Washington (1772 and 1777), and portraits of many of the famous men of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, a number of which are in See also:Independence See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, Philadelphia. His portraits of Washington do not See also:appeal so strongly to Americans as do those of See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert See also:Stuart, but his admitted skill as a draughtsman gives to all of his See also:work considerable See also:historical value. Peale removed to
2 A. See also:Newton himself regarded this as probably incorrect.
See also:Japan or " See also:black-shouldered " Peafowls.
See also:golden-See also:green See also:neck and See also:breast furnish a ready means of distinction. See also:Sir R. See also:Heron was confident that the, Japan breed had arisen in See also:England within his memory,2 and C. See also:Darwin (Animals and See also:Plants under Domestication, i. 290-292) was inclined to believe it only a variety; but its abrupt See also:appearance, which rests on indisputable See also:evidence, is most suggestive in the See also:light that it may one See also:day throw on the question of See also:evolution as exhibited in the origin of " See also:species." It should be stated that the japan See also:bird is not known to exist anywhere as a See also:wild See also:race, though apparently kept in Japan. The accompanying See also:illustration is copied from a See also:plate See also:drawn by J. See also:Wolf, given in D. G. Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae.
The peafowls belong to the See also:group Gallinae, from the normal members of which they do not materially differ in structure; and, though by some systematists they are raised to the See also:rank of a family, Pavonidae, most are content to regard them as a sub-family of Phasianidae (See also:PHEASANT, q.v.). Akin to the genus Pavo is Poly-plectrum, of which the See also:males are armed with two or more spurs on each See also:leg, and near them is generally placed the genus Argusianus, containing the See also:argus-pheasants, remarkable for their wonderfully ocellated plumage, and the extraordinary length of the secondary quills of their wings, as well as of the tail-feathers. It must always be remembered that the so-called " tail " of the See also:peacock is formed not by the rectrices or true tail-feathers, but by the singular development of the tail-coverts. (A. N.)
Philadelphia in 1777, and served as a member of the See also:committee of public safety; he aided in raising a militia See also:company, became a See also:lieutenant and afterwards a See also:captain, and took See also:part in the battles of Trenton, See also:Princeton and See also:Germantown. In 1779–1780 he was a member of the See also:Pennsylvania See also:assembly, where he voted for the abolition of See also:slavery—he freed his own slaves whom he had brought from Maryland. In 1801 he undertook, largely at his own expense, the excavation of the skeletons of two mastodons in See also:Ulster and See also:Orange counties, New See also:York, and in 1802 he established at Philadelphia Peale's Museum. He was one of the founders, in 1805, of the Pennsylvania See also:Academy of the See also:Fine Arts at Philadelphia. At the age of eighty-one Peale painted a large canvas, " See also:Christ Healing the Sick at See also:Bethesda," and at eighty-three a full-length portrait of himself, now in the Academy of the Fine'Arts. He died at his country See also:home, near Germantown, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of See also:February 1826.
His See also:brother, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES PEALE (1749-1831), also an artist, painted two portraits of Washington (one now the See also:property of the New York Historical Society, and the other in Independence Hall, Philadelphia), besides landscapes and historical compositions.
End of Article: PEALE, CHARLES WILLSON (1741-1826)
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