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PEALE, CHARLES WILLSON (1741-1826) , American portrait painter, celebrated especially for his portraits of Washington, was born in Queen Anne county, Maryland, on the 16th of April 1741. During his infancy the family removed to Chestertown, Kent county, Maryland, and after the death of his father (a country schoolmaster) in 1750 they removed to Annapolis. Here, at the age of 13, he was apprenticed to a saddler. About 1764 he began seriously to study art. He got some assistance from Gustavus Hesselius, a Swedish portrait painter then living near Annapolis, and from John Singleton Copley in Boston; and in 1767-1770 he studied under Benjamin West in London. In 1770 he opened a studio in Philadelphia, and met with immediate success. In 1772, at Mount
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2 A. Newton himself regarded this as probably incorrect. Japan or " black-shouldered " Peafowls. golden-green neck and breast furnish a ready means of distinction. Sir R. Heron was confident that the, Japan breed had arisen in England within his memory,2 and C. Darwin (Animals and Plants under Domestication, i. 290-292) was inclined to believe it only a variety; but its abrupt appearance, which rests on indisputable evidence, is most suggestive in the light that it may one day throw on the question of evolution as exhibited in the origin of " species." It should be stated that the japan bird is not known to exist anywhere as a wild race, though apparently kept in Japan. The accompanying illustration
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The peafowls belong to the 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 rank of a family, Pavonidae, most are content to regard them as a sub-family of Phasianidae ( PHEASANT
Philadelphia in 1777, and served as a member of the committee of public safety; he aided in raising a militia company, became a lieutenant and afterwards a captain, and took part in the battles of Trenton, Princeton and Germantown. In 17791780 he was a member of the Pennsylvania
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His brother, JAMES PEALE (1749-1831), also an artist, painted two portraits of Washington (one now the property of the New York
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