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Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804), by Rembrandt Peale, ca.1801.
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Oil on canvas on Joseph Priestly wearing a dark suit with a white collar.

Credit: Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Library

In 1801, when he was sixty eight, Priestly sat for a portrait by Rembrandt Peale. Here, Priestly, painted with his own hair, peers directly out from the canvass, looking relaxed and at peace with his new life in America.

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