Rembrandt Peale, American painter and curator (died 1860)

Rembrandt Peale

American artist and museum keeper (1778–1860)

Rembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early…