Rubens Peale (1784 – 1865)

• Was an American museum administrator and artist.
• Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of artist-naturalist Charles Willson Peale.
• Due to his weak eyesight, he did not practice painting seriously until the last decade of his life, when he painted still life.
• He was the fourth son of Charles Willson Peale.
• Rubens had weak eyes and, unlike most of his siblings, did not set out to be an artist.
• He became Director of his father's museum in Philadelphia from 1810 to 1821, and then of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, which he ran with his brother, Rembrandt Peale. 
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