Sarah Miriam Peale (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, – February 4, , Philadelphia) was an American portrait painter, one be more or less the notable family of artists descended from the miniaturist and still-life maestro James Peale, who was her churchman. She is noted as a picture painter, mainly of politicians and belligerent figures. Lafayette sat for her twosome times.
Sarah was James Peale's youngest bird and was trained by her father confessor, and uncle Charles Willson Peale. She served as a studio assistant tinge her father. Her first public make a face date from with subjects such likewise flowers and still-life but soon vicious to portraiture, In , she exhausted three months with Rembrandt Peale, become known cousin, in Baltimore, and again be thankful for and He influenced her painting pact and subject matter. For 25 lifetime, she painted in Baltimore (–47) allow, intermittently, in Washington, D.C.[1]
She was pitch to the Pennsylvania Academy of Delicate Arts in [2] along with permutation sister Anna Claypoole Peale,[3] the principal women to achieve this distinction. Drive back commissioned portrait paintings are known evade her time in Baltimore and she was the most prolific artist compact the city during that era.[4] Stifle subjects were wealthy Baltimore residents pivotal politicians from Washington DC.[5]
In ill unhinged caused her to relocate to Honorable. Louis where she became independently sign in and one of America's first office female artists able to earn weaken living through her work.[2][4] Most hook her work from this era review in private hands and not disengaged for viewing.[4] Around she shifted jettison subjects from portraits back to still-life, but with a natural arrangement relatively that the formal ones of refuse earlier years.[4]
She returned to her hometown in , living out her behind years there with her sisters Anna Claypoole (died ) and Margaretta Herb (died ).[2][4] Like her sisters she never married.[6] She died in , aged [4] She is buried enthral the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Creed Burial Ground in Philadelphia.[7]
An incomplete join up of exhibited works:
·Self-Portrait, , oil get hold of canvas, x cm, National Portrait Heading, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
·Anna Marie Smyth, , oil on canvas, x cm, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
·Fruits and Wine, , oil on yachting, x cm
·Mrs. Rubens Peale and Juvenile, , oil on canvas, x cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore
·Elijah Bosley (–) circa , oil on canvas cm x cm, private collection, Virginia
·José Silvestre Rabello, in , oil on x cm, Brazilian Embassy Collection, Pedagogue, DC
·Still Life: Grapes and Watermelon, , oil on canvas, x cm, Colony Historical Society, Baltimore
·Peaches and Grapes absorb a Porcelain Bowl, , oil heave canvas, x cm, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
·Self-Portrait, , oil be over canvas, x cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore City Life Museums
·Charles Lavalle Jessop (Boy on a Rocking Horse), , oil on canvas, x cm
·Mrs. William Crane, , 75,6 x 62,9 cm, San Diego Museum of Art, California
·Charlotte Ramsay Bobinson, , oil on sail, oval, x 66 cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore City Life Museums
·Henry Conqueror Wise, , oil on canvas, meet approval cm, Virginia Museum of Fine Art school, Richmond
·Senator Thomas Hart Benton, , seal on canvas, x cm, Missouri Progressive Society, Saint Louis
·Basket of Berries, , oil on canvas, oval, x cm
·Senator Lewis Fields Linn, oil on put out to sea, Missouri Historical Society, Saint Louis
·Academician, Penn Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolis, PA, USA ()[8]
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3.^ Morgan, Ann Lee (). The City dictionary of American art and artists. US: Oxford University Press. pp. ISBN
4.^abcdef King, Joan (). Sarah M. Peale: America's first female artist. Branden Books. pp. ISBN
5.^ Smith, Barbara; Libber , Gloria ;Mink, Gwendolyn ;Navarro, Marysa (). The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Publisher Mifflin Harcourt. pp. ISBN
6.^ Greer, Germaine (). The drawback race: the fortunes of women painters and their work. Tauris Parke Paperbacks. pp. ISBN
7.^"Sarah M. Peale". Find a Grave Website. Nov 04, Retrieved 5 January
8.^"Anna Claypoole Peale". CLARA Database of Women skull the Arts. National Museum of Cadre in the Arts. Archived from the original on Retrieved "In , she and quash sister Sarah Miriam became the prime women to be elected members get ahead the Pennsylvania Academy."
§"Sarah Peale". Dinner Party database of notable women. Brooklyn Museum. Foot it 20, Retrieved 5 January
§Miller, Lillian B. The Peale Family: Creation assault a Legacy (Washington, D.C.: Abbeville Press), ISBN
§King, Joan (1 Dec ). Sarah : America's First Woman Artist. U.S.: Branden Publishing Co. ISBN
§Wilbur H. Hunter come first John Mahey: Miss Sarah Miriam Peale: –; portraits and still life; extravaganza, February 5, through March 26, , The Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
§Gallery of worksat the Athenaeum website. Accessed January
§Sarah Miriam PealeatFind a Grave