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New Rembrandt Peale Portrait in Focus Show at the Walters Art Museum, March 4–August 23
Exhibition will explore the mystery of the sitter’s identity
In celebration of a recent gift to the museum by a Maryland family, the Walters Art Museum presents the focus show, Rembrandt Peale’s Portrait of John Meer: A New Addition to the American Art Collection, on the work of painter Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860). The donated, undated painting, Portrait of John Meer, depicts a robust middle-aged man who points enigmatically at a human skull cradled to his body. Painted …

