WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson Peale. Peale ...

Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established ... son Raphaelle had painted Absalom Jones in 1810) went to Washington to record the likenesses of distinguished Americans ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the most influential of the many images painting during Jefferson's lifetime. It has been publicly ...