Artist
Charles Peale Polk
born Annapolis, MD 1767-died Richmond Courthouse, VA 1822
- Biography
Born March 17, 1767, in Annapolis, Md. Moved with his family to Charles Town, Md., 1775. His mother died in 1773 and his father in 1777. Adopted by his uncle Charles Willson Peale, 1776. Lived in Philadelphia, 1776–91; studied painting with his uncle. In Baltimore, 1791–96. Itinerant painter, 1796–1801. Lived in Washington, D.C., 1802–19. Worked as a clerk for the Treasury Department, 1802–19. Was a founder of the First Baptist Church, 1802. Retired to Richmond County, Va., 1820. Died May 6, 1822, in Richmond County, Va.
Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983)