tarotgal

Well, one of them is, that is ;-)

I've been trying to track down this painting that was hanging in my high school English teacher's classroom. And after FIFTEEN years, I've found it! I was at a book sale a few months ago and the painting was on the cover, among others. I finally found the book in the storage room and Wikipediaed it (yeah, that's a word; get over it).

The painting is Rubens Peale With a Geranium by Rembrandt Peale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubens_Peale


Rubens is 17 in the painting. His whole family were artists, but he went a different route and opened his own museum: The New York Museum of Natural History and Science. And then he ended up keeping a journal and painting still lifes and landscapes anyway. I have a total crush on the man :-) And now I kind of want to track down the Peale Museum (now the Municipal Museum of Baltimore). Or maybe the Maryland Historical Society, as that's where the Peale collection is now.

Yeah, I love me some geeky, nature-loving men! I'm so relieved to finally find out about this painting that was in my head for a decade and a half!