American Revolutionary portraitist

Usage examples of peale.

Peale, has this scene you just witnessed affected your determination to go?

When old Delmar Peale showed the two policemen the circular about the stolen clarinet parts, when he explained what I was to be arrested for, I even smiled.

In America, they turned up in the illustrations of patriotic pamphlets, and when Charles Willson Peale later painted his portrait of William Pitt (to the colonists, a hero of enlightened government), he depicted the British statesman in the attitude and garb of a Roman orator, Magna Carta in hand, pointing to a figure of Britannia holding a liberty pole.

But no one mentioned that), Peralta took one end himself and Orrin Peale took the other.

He was not the sort to tell war storiesindeed, he allways avoided saying anything, according to the portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, who admired him for it, of the actions in which he [had been] Engaged.

Peale, a new star in the Philadelphia firmament, young, gifted, gregarious, was also a wholehearted patriot who only days earlier had signed on as a common soldier in a company of local militia.