Historical Figure
Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale was a leading American portraitist, museum founder, and naturalist who painted Meriwether Lewis from life in 1807, producing the most famous likeness of the explorer. His Philadelphia Museum displayed many of the natural history specimens and Native American artifacts brought back by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Portrait: Public Domain, Self-Portrait (c. 1791), National Portrait Gallery
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From the Heacock Memorial Archive
3 lewis-clark.org articles that mention Charles Willson Peale, preserved here for Robert Heacock’s photography. The articles were written by that site’s contributing authors.
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