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New! Your Face, Your Place in History

A room in an old house that features a green, wooden chair rail and small portraits along that rail, midway up on the way.

Do you have a heart for Baltimore? Offer your face too!

Baltimore artist and participatory-history specialist Lauren Muney is hand-creating and installing custom silhouette (profile portraits) friezes of Baltimore City, Maryland, residents’ silhouettes for long-term, free public installation at the Peale. These faces will encircle several rooms of the historical Peale walls, giving visitors, residents and guests the opportunity to feel the Baltimore ‘family’ all around them.

All of the faces will be profiles, all in the same color—classic black. The portraits showcase the beauty and dignity of each individual. Each face will be equally represented and equally valued because they are seen for their essence—not their skin color nor social class, nor any weight of society’s judgements.

All #PealeFaces participants receive their own gorgeous, historical-style handmade portrait.

> Sign up to be part of this historic project! 

We are especially looking for change-makers and community-enhancers. Forward this to your friends who are making Baltimore a better place!

Read about the project and sign up at the bottom of the webpage: https://old.thepealecenter.org/peale-faces/

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Peale Trivia: Peale’s Gallery

A close-up view of an artist's palette and a paint brush that it being dipped into a gob of dark brown paint.

Q. Which of these artist’s paintings did NOT appear in Rembrandt Peale’s early gallery?

A. According to early documentation, the artist who did NOT appear in the Peale’s museum was Vincent Van Gogh. The others were all represented.

An 1823 catalog lists the following artists whose works were on display: Leonardo da Vinci, Gainsborough, Breughel, Reynolds, Bosch, van de Velde, Ruysdael, Kauffman, Claude Lorrain, Poussin, Velasquez, Canaletto, Raphael, Sully. The exhibit also included works by Charles Willson Peale, then the foremost portrait painter in the country, and by members of his artistic extended family, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, and Sarah Miriam Peale. Baltimore collectors lent most of the paintings.

> Learn more about the history of the Peale building!