TY  - JOUR
T1  - STill life with peaches
AU  - Torpy JM
Y1  - 2010/01/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.1853
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 203
EP  - 203
VL  - 303
IS  - 3
N2  - 
Still life painting garnered little enthusiasm from early 19th-century Americans. Citizens of a relatively new nation, they preferred portraits and genre scenes. Frugality, earnestness, industry: these attributes that drove the formation of the United States did not easily merge with a style of painting that celebrated simple observation. Charles Willson Peale, prolific portraitist of the era, exploited this atmosphere—and his talent—to match the desires of the purchasing public, but his eldest surviving son Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825) could not. The junior Peale, whose art never earned him enough money to pay the bills, is referred to in modern scholarship as the “father of American still life painting.” Raphaelle excelled at portraying in his art the sense of order that his life lacked.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1853
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1853
ER  -