Still Life with Wine, Cake, and Nuts

Raphaelle Peale · 1819

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Raphaelle Peale

United States · 1774–1825

Raphaelle Peale is considered the first professional American painter of still-life. == Biography == Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of the painter Charles Willson Peale and his first wife Rachel Brewer. He grew up in Philadelphia, and spent his life there in a home at the corner of 3rd and Lombard. Like his siblings (almost all of whom were named after famous artists or scientists), Raphaelle was trained by his father as an artist. Early in his career, the pair collaborated on portraits.

Independent artist guide by Momentable. Biography from Wikipedia; artworks credited to the museums that hold them.

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Alfred Frankenstein has called Raphaelle Peale "the first really distinguished still-life specialist to emerge in this country, and he is one of the four major still-life painters of the nineteenth century in the United States." His style may have been influenced by Spanish still life paintings he saw on his trip to Mexico and by the two works by Juan Sanchez Cotan, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1816. Most of Peale's paintings are small in scale, and depict a few objects, usually foodstuffs, arranged on a tabletop before a darkened background. A notable exception to this is his trompe-l'œil, Venus Rising from the Sea, A Deception (also entitled After the Bath, 1822, in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art). This painting serves as a distinct thematic departure from his other work. While the dark backdrop is consistent with his still life works, there were themes of this work that make it unique amongst Peale's other works.