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| Keywords: Self-Portrait with Angelica by Charles Willson Peale.png File Charles Wilson Peale - Self-Portrait with Angelica and Portrait of Rachel - Google Art Project jpg Artwork Creator Charles Willson Peale Self-Portrait with Angelica and Portrait of Rachel c 1782-85 oil on canvas in 36 125 27 125 The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston TX United States From MFAH <br> Charles Willson Peale painted a number of self-portraits throughout his career but this work stands as one of the most complex and revealing of the artist ™s statements about his art and its close relationship to among such issues as family domesticity family enterprise and the educational role of science and art Seated in a Windsor-back armchair the artist turns slightly and directs his gaze toward the viewer He tilts his palette toward the viewer and with his right hand dips his brush into the paint appearing on the palette Without actually gripping the brush daughter Angelica Kauffmann Peale 1775 “1853 playfully appears to guide it with one hand as her other hand points toward heaven as if she is playing the allegorical muse of painting To the left of the artist Rachel Brewer Peale 1744 “1790 the artist ™s wife peers out of the painted canvas with an expression as life-like as those of the artist and daughter In other words Peale seems to beg the viewer to consider issues of illusion and reality and the artist ™s magical ability to transform mere pigment as suggested by the blobs of paint revealed to the viewer on the palette carefully juxtaposed with the painted canvas into life as revealed by the vibrantly alive portrait of his wife on the easel Such investigations into painting as more than a mimetic enterprise are characteristic of the artist ™s most sophisticated works The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Other versions http //www mfah org/art/100-highlights/Self-Portrait-Peale/ PD-old-100 Charles Willson Peale Self-portraits with family Self-portraits with artwork Portraits with image of family member | ||||
