click image for close-up Like many of Charles Willson Peale's portraits, his 1783 oil painting of Benjamin Rush sought to portray the intellectual qualities and political sensibilities of the subject.

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Benjamin Rush was a prominent physician, a social reformer, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. After studying medicine abroad at the University of Edinburgh, he returned to Philadelphia ...