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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Citations

  • Poesch, J. (1961), 'Titian Ramsay Peale and His Journals of the Wilkes Expedition’, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 52, Philadelphia.

  • Sellers, C. (1980), 'Mr. Peale’s Museum’, New York.

  • Information sourced from Horning, D.C.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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