Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Rembrandt Peale - Rubens Peale with a Geranium - Google Art Project.jpg

Rubens Peale with a Geranium by Rembrandt Peale[edit]

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Reason: A good picture of botanist Rubens Peale from the famous Peale family, with his geranium, said to be the first American geranium. The Peales were famous for establishing the first museums, see Peale Museum. Charles Willson Peale christened most of his seventeen children after famous artists and scientists; ... While Rembrandt Peale did become a painter and the portraitist of this work, Rubens Peale, who sat for this likeness at the age of seventeen, was a botanist. The geranium depicted is said to be the first specimen ever grown in the New World.
Articles in which this image appears: Rubens Peale and Rembrandt Peale

FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering or ...Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Rembrandt Peale

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 16:24, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Lovely painting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:03, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Interesting composition (the geranium seems to be stroking his hair while he caresses its roots; "oooooo, caress my roots"). Belle (talk) 14:57, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. A quality reproduction and an interesting portrait. And what Belle said. Although I think he's too innocent and pure looking to be complicit in the geranium's kinky games... ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 23:38, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lovely; both a highly notable subject and artist. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:40, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Rembrandt Peale - Rubens Peale with a Geranium - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Placed it in People/Artists and writers, because according to the article he "was an American artist and museum director". Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]