His early work, under John Hesselius, was primarily natural as evinced by his Landscape Looking Towards Sellers Hall from Mill Bank.  
His early work, under John Hesselius, was primarily natural as evinced by his Landscape Looking Towards Sellers Hall from Mill Bank.  He later became a master of trompe l'oeil [tromp-LOY], which is seen in his The Staircase Group, and also of note was the archaeological dig that produced the canvas Exhuming the Mastodon.  FTP, name this founder of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a man who painted George Washington 7 times and named many of his 17 children after Renaissance painters.
His early work, under John Hesselius, was primarily natural as evinced by his Landscape Looking Towards Sellers Hall from Mill Bank.  
Charles Willson Peale