ens Peale with Geranium conveys the intellectual and scientific bent of Peale's brother and suggests the New World's fertile environment.
Carol Baton Hevner, was the first full-length study of the artist. "It is now clear," Washington- based writer May says, "that over many decades of painting Rembrandt Peale produced an out- standing portrait gallery of his generation of Americans."
As a young boy in 1787, Peale watched with fascination as his father painted a portrait of...