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Which I was." Surely, there is an content [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] experience in Peale's work. Not [[strikethrough]] to be [[/strikethrough]] sensed under the smooth and silvery [[strikethrough]] perfections [[/strikethrough]] surfaces of Copley, consummate craftsman though he was?

[[strikethrough]] At any rate;[[/strikethrough]] Peale was long blanketed by the adverse comment of Dunlap, who wrote [[strikethrough]] rather [[/strikethrough]] slightingly of 
"Mr. Peale, who seems to have wished to play every part in life's drama, not content with being a saddler, a coach maker, a clock and watchmaker, a silversmith, and a portrait painter, studied while in London modeling in wax, moulding and casting in plaster, painting in miniature, and engraving in mezzo-tinto....
....The two additional avocations of soldier and states-[were] engrafted on the already overloaded stock. It was a sturdy stem; but no stem and bring to maturity the best fruit of so many different kinds,.....
Thus wrote Dunlap [[strikethrough]] who was [[/strikethrough]] truly a jack-of-all-trades. Yet this same variety and versatility in the [[strikethrough]] universally [[/strikethrough]] admired Franklin was commended as symbolizing the universal[[strikethrough]] ity of[[/strikethrough]] genius of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] 18th