Charles Peale Polk

1767 - 1822  (55 years)

• Name	Charles Peale Polk
  Birth	17 Mar 1767	Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 May 1822	Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia
  Person ID	I105324	Tree1
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert Polk   d. 1777
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Digby Peale,   b. 1744, Queen Anne's County, Maryland d. 1773 (Age 29 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F46430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Hipkins,   b. Aft 1774, Essex County, Virginia
  Marriage	Virginia
  Family ID	F46428	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Biography Born March 17, 1767, in Annapolis, Md. Moved with his family to Charles Town, Md., 1775. His mother died in 1773 and his father in 1777. Adopted by his uncle Charles Willson Peale, 1776. Lived in Philadelphia, 1776-91; studied painting with his uncle. In Baltimore, 1791-96. Itinerant painter, 1796-1801. Lived in Washington, D.C., 1802-19. Worked as a clerk for the Treasury Department, 1802-19. Was a founder of the First Baptist Church, 1802. Retired to Richmond County, Va., 1820. Died May 6, 1822, in Richmond County, Va. Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800-1915 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983)