Today in Smithsonian History: September 3, 1974
Charles Willson Peale Papers staff: Dr. Lillian B. Miller, Dr. Michael D. Schaffer, Barbara Bares and Rose Emerick. (Photographer unknown, as featured in the Torch, February 1975)
September 3, 1974 The Charles Willson Peale Papers project is established under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lillian B. Miller, Historian of American Culture at the National Portrait Gallery, is appointed editor. Peale (1741-1827) was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution.
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), The Peale Family, 1773-1809, Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan (1867.298)
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
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