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Raphaelle Peale Prints
About Raphaelle Peale
Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825) was an American painter, born in Annapolis, Maryland, the eldest surviving son of the painter Charles Willson Peale. He trained with his father, worked with him on portraits, and spent most of his life in Philadelphia, where the family ran Peale's Museum. In his early career he painted miniatures and portraits, and between 1803 and 1805 he toured Virginia making profile portraits with a machine called the physiognotrace.
From about 1810 Raphaelle Peale turned almost entirely to still life, and he is often called America's first professional still-life painter. His small, carefully arranged pictures of fruit, cakes and nuts set out on plain tabletops were shown regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, especially between 1814 and 1818. He suffered long periods of ill health and died in Philadelphia in 1825. His paintings are held by museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Raphaelle Peale prints: reproductions of still-life paintings by Raphaelle Peale, the early American painter of fruit and food. Works here include A Dessert (1814), Still Life with Cake (1818) and Still Life: Strawberries, Nuts, &c. (1822).
This selection focuses on Peale's late tabletop still lifes, painted in Philadelphia between 1814 and 1822. Each shows a small arrangement of fruit, cake or nuts set on a table edge against a plain dark background, with close attention to surfaces and texture.
The food subjects and calm, dark palettes suit a kitchen, dining room or breakfast nook, and the small, balanced compositions work well in a pair or trio. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
