ID "photo" is a portrait of Rubens Peale, by his brother Rembrandt Peale, 1807 Rubens Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865); American artist and museum director. Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale. He was the fourth son of Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak eyes and, unlike most of his siblings, did not set out to be an artist. He traveled with the family in 1802 to Britain, but was unable to travel on the continent with the outbreak of war. In 1803 he attended classes at the University of Pennsylvania. He became Director of his father's museum in Philadelphia from 1810 to 1821, and then of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, which he ran with his brother, Rembrandt Peale. To promote the museum, he installed gas lighting illumination in the museum. He opened his own museum in New York on October 26, 1825, (along with the opening of the Erie Canal). By 1840, Peale would change the name to the New York Museum of Natural History and Science. The Panic of 1837 sent his museum into debt.... In 1837, he retired to his father-in-law, George Patterson's estate near Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, and lived as a country gentleman, at Woodland Farm. He experimented with mesmerism... In October 1855, he began keeping a journal, and he turned to still life painting, as an extension of his interest in natural history. In 1864, he returned to Philadelphia, and studied landscape painting with Edward Moran. In the last 10 years of his life, he produced 130 paintings. ....In 1985, the National Gallery of Art paid $4.07 million for Rubens Peale With a Geranium, an 1801 portrait by his brother Rembrandt Peale. This set a record for an American work of art sold at auction. Art history and ophthalmology scholars have studied the painting, and have theories for this unusual depiction of eyeglasses. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubens_Peale) undefined

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