This portrait is of seventeen-year-old Rubens Peale painted by his older brother, Rembrandt Peale. Rubens, is seated at a table; he appears preoccupied, lost in thought and not looking through his silver-framed glasses. Next to him on the table is a very tall geranium in a terracotta pot, with green leaves and small red flowers. Rubens' left hand, rests on the table, holding a second pair of glasses; whilst his right-hand rests on the rim of the flowerpot with two fingers touching the soil. While the geranium in the painting serves to define Rubens' interests in horticulture, and perhaps was intended as the subject of the painting; the two pairs of glasses are important in characterising Rubens' physical state i.e. he was extremely near-sighted.

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Size: 71 cm (h) x 61 cm (w)
27 in (h) x 24 in (w)

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Material: Oil Paint on Canvas

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