Courtesy of Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 



CHARLES WILSON PEALE IN HIS MUSEUM. PHILADELPHIA. 1777 



Noted portrait artist of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, who made one of the first 

 steps toward the Inauguration of science museums in this coimtry. [The Charleston Miiseimi 

 is supposed to be the oldest museum in America.] Many of his ideas regarding artistic ex- 

 hibition we are just beginning to carry into effect to-day. This portrait of Peale by himself 

 is the property of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 



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