Titian Peale b. 2 November 1799

Also known as Titian Ramsay Peale
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Titian Ramsay Peale was a painter, naturalist, amateur photographer and museum curator. He was born in Philadelphia, North America, in 1799. Peale was appointed to the Scientific Corps as a zoologist and naturalist to the proposed United States South Sea Surveying and Exploring Expedition. They reached Sydney in 1839.
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painter, naturalist, amateur photographer and museum curator, was born in Philadelphia, North America, on 2 November 1799, youngest son of the painter Charles Willson Peale who at the time was deeply involved with his museum of art and natural science.
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1992
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2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Poesch, J. (1961), 'Titian Ramsay Peale and His Journals of the Wilkes Expedition', Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 52, Philadelphia.>, <ExternalResource: Sellers, C. (1980), 'Mr. Peale's Museum', New York.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Horning, D.C.>]