Rembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale’s style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. Rembrandt Peale completed more than 600 paintings. He painted portraits of many notable people, including American presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall. Peale’s neoclassical painting “The Roman Daughter” depicts a young girl shielding her father, a prisoner in chains, and feeding him from her breast, the emblem of “Roman Charity” reported in the pages of Pliny. This piece demonstrates compassion and graceful defense; his copy of Correggio’s “Angel”, and his immense allegorical painting, “Court of Death” (1820), reveal the same artistic style.