Please note that the 2nd floor of the Hamilton Building will be closed to the public on Thursday, April 9, and Friday, April 10, for a private event. The Bodies and Soul exhibition will remain open.
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Rubens Peale was the youngest son of Charles Willson Peale and his first wife, Rachel. This painting, possibly painted after a small sketch by Charles’s brother James, shows the Peale home and museum, complete with skylights added for a portrait gallery in 1782.