Rembrandt Peale: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Lillian B. Miller et al., In Pursuit of Frame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778–1860 (1991), is the first full-length biography. William Oedel, “The Rewards of Virtue: Rembrandt Peale and Social Reform,” in Lillian B. Miller (ed.), The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770–1870 (1996), pp. 150–167, 288–290, is also useful.

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Article History

Description	Contributor	Date
Anniversary information added.		Feb 18, 2026
Anniversary information added.		Sep 29, 2025
First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 01, 2024
Modified link of Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Rembrandt Peale.	Emily Rodriguez	Jun 01, 2017
Add new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Biography of Rembrandt Peale.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 25, 2014
Add new Web site: Smithsonian American Art Museum - Biography of Rembrandt Peale.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 25, 2014
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Rembrandt Peale.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 25, 2014
Bibliography updated.	Kathleen Kuiper	Jul 25, 2012
Added image of Rembrandt Peale's painting The Sisters (Eleanor and Rosalba Peale) (1826).	Virginia Gorlinski	Oct 01, 2010
Peale's portrait of Albert Gallatin added.	Kathleen Kuiper	Jun 24, 2010
Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 01, 2002
Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998