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Raphaelle Peale
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Raphaelle Peale (sometimes spelled Raphael Peale) (February 17, 1774 – March 25, 1825) was an American painter of still-life, perhaps best-known today for his painting Venus Rising from the Sea — A Deception.
Peale's tightly grouped still lifes are often permeated with a delicate melancholy akin to that which characterized the life of the artist; he was an alcoholic who suffered the effects of arsenic and mercury poisoning caused by his work as a taxidermist in his father's museum.
His spare, essential style may have been influenced by the Spanish still lifes he studied in Mexico and by the works of Juan Sánchez Cotán, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1818.
Biography
Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of the painter Charles Willson Peale and his first wife Rachel Brewer.
He grew up in Philadelphia, and spent h