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Charles Willson Peale was born in 1741. He was a portrait painter, a scientist, an inventor, and the founder of America's first major museum (called Peale's Museum). He worked for the good of the common people. He died in 1827.
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The Peale Family. Don't feel bad. It took me a while to find it, too.
On the ceiling of the Oval Office is a painted Presidential Seal. Over the fireplace hangs a porthole portrait of the first US President George Washington by Rembrandt Peale painted in 1776.