This is the grave of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Born in 1960 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Basquiat was half-Haitian and half-Puerto Rican. His mother was a big art fan and she took her kids to museums all the time, at a time when I would guess families...
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This is the grave of Rembrandt Peale. Born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Peale was the son of the famed early American painter Charles Wilson Peale. Old Man Peale.
This is the grave of Harriet Cany Peale. Born in 1799 or 1800 in Philadelphia, Harriet Cany grew up fairly well off. She married and then her husband died. So.
This is the grave of Mary Cecil Allen. Born in Melbourne in 1893 (definitely the first Aussie in the series!), Allen grew up wealthy. Her father was the Dean of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. Going by Cecil and not Mary, she decided to...
This is the grave of Charles Willson Peale. Born in 1741 in Queen Anne's County in Maryland, Peale grew up in middling circumstances. He was apprenticed to a saddle maker.
This is the grave of George Catlin. Born in 1796 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Catlin grew up obsessed with the indigenous peoples who his ancestors had recently driven out of the.