In the extensive publications about John James Audubon (Fig. 1), the artist-naturalist who was America’s first great watercolorist, his art has not received the same attention as his dramatic life ...

Rembrandt Peale spent much of his life trying unsuccessfully to make his own image of Washington the standard, instead of Gilbert Stuart’s, whose painting of Washington is on the $1 bill. At one ...

Rembrandt Peale's writings on the mastodon, the artist's palette, and his portraits of Washington provide important information about early science and artistic practice. Titian Ramsay Peale's ...