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The Artist in His Museum is an 1822 self-portrait by the American painter Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827). It depicts the 81-year-old artist posed in Peale's Museum, then occupying the second floor of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The nearly life-size painting is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Charles Willson Peale self-portrait Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Independence Hall