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9 STAIRCASE GROUP 1795 worker. His name will be better [[encircled cross]] known as the arts are better cultivated." (CF. Sellers The Artist of the Revolution) The influence of Peale's devotion to the arts may be seen in such [[strikethrough]]xxxxx[[/strikethrough]] STILL LIFE: LIQUER AND FRUIT---- an artist as his son, Raphaelle, whose still [[encircled cross]] life ushers in AFTER THE BATH 1823 American still life. Raphaelle's classic After the Bath [[encircled cross]], painted in 1823, is a prototype without [[strikethrough]]xxxxx[[/strikethrough]] ancestor for surrealism, unless one chooses to argue that Trompe [[strikethrough]]xxxxx[[/strikethrough]] L'oeil illusionism is the true parent of surrealism rather than the subconscious. [[strikethrough]] At any rate; [[/strikethrough]] Illusionistic rendering of natural appearances has a long tradition in American art, THE AMERICAN SCHOOL 1765 from the Gibbs portrait[[strikethrough]]s on down, [[/strikethrough]] through Matthew [[encircled cross]] Pratt's well known American School, Painted in 1765, in West's studio in London. The Standard of Criteria operating (not amount critics, but among