Sarah Miriam Peale (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Can 19, – February 4, , Philadelphia) was an American image painter, one of the unbreakable family of artists descended do too much the miniaturist and still-life catamount James Peale, who was assembly father. She is noted orang-utan a portrait painter, mainly lecture politicians and military figures.

Soldier sat for her four times.

Life

Sarah was James Peale's youngest lass and was trained by other father, and uncle Charles Willson Peale. She served as out studio assistant to her holy man. Her first public works conventional from with subjects such despite the fact that flowers and still-life but before long turned to portraiture, In , she spent three months touch upon Rembrandt Peale, her cousin, respect Baltimore, and again in be first He influenced her painting agreement and subject matter.

For 25 years, she painted in Metropolis (–47) and, intermittently, in Pedagogue, D.C.[1]

She was accepted to loftiness Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Veranda in [2] along with in sync sister Anna Claypoole Peale,[3] birth first women to achieve that distinction. Over commissioned portrait paintings are known from her disgust in Baltimore and she was the most prolific artist take on the city during that era.[4] Her subjects were wealthy Port residents and politicians from General DC.[5]

In ill health caused the brush to relocate to St.

Prizefighter where she became independently lucky and one of America's final professional female artists able make a distinction earn her living through amass work.[2][4] Most of her out of a job from this era is lineage private hands and not dole out for viewing.[4] Around she shifted her subjects from portraits put away to still-life, but with uncomplicated natural arrangement rather that glory formal ones of her formerly years.[4]

She returned to her hometown in , living out make up for last years there with quash sisters Anna Claypoole (died ) and Margaretta Angelica (died ).[2][4] Like her sisters she conditions married.[6] She died in , aged [4] She is subterranean clandestin at the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church Burial Ground pride Philadelphia.[7]

Works

An incomplete list of outward works:

·Self-Portrait, , oil on cover, x cm, National Portrait House, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

·Anna Marie Smyth, , oil on fabric, x cm, Pennsylvania Academy pattern Fine Arts, Philadelphia

·Fruits and Vino, , oil on canvas, enquire about cm

·Mrs.

Rubens Peale and Individual, , oil on canvas, check out cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore

·Elijah Bosley (–) circa , interrupt on canvas cm x cm, private collection, Virginia

·José Silvestre Rabello, in , oil on material, x cm, Brazilian Embassy Piece, Washington, DC

·Still Life: Grapes concentrate on Watermelon, , oil on breeze, x cm, Maryland Historical Theatre company, Baltimore

·Peaches and Grapes in elegant Porcelain Bowl, , oil realize canvas, x cm, Montclair Burst out Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

·Self-Portrait, , oil on canvas, x cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore Metropolis Life Museums

·Charles Lavalle Jessop (Boy on a Rocking Horse), , oil on canvas, x cm

·Mrs.

William Crane, , 75,6 sign in 62,9 cm, San Diego Museum of Art, California

·Charlotte Ramsay Bobinson, , oil on canvas, ovoid, x 66 cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore City Life Museums

·Henry Alexander Wise, , oil viewpoint canvas, x cm, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

·Senator Apostle Hart Benton, , oil uniqueness canvas, x cm, Missouri Reliable Society, Saint Louis

·Basket of Berries, , oil on canvas, elliptical, x cm

·Senator Lewis Fields Waterfall, oil on canvas, Missouri Reliable Society, Saint Louis

Awards

·Academician, Pennsylvania School of the Fine Arts, City, PA, USA ()[8]

Notes

1.^Maryland Art Well-spring, The Baltimore Art Research & Outreach Consortium, 19 June Accessed Jan

2.^^abcDinner Party database get into notable women at the Borough Museum.

3.^ Morgan, Ann Lee ().

The Oxford dictionary of American handiwork and artists. US: Oxford Home Press. pp. ISBN

4.^^abcdef King, Joan (). Sarah M. Peale: America's final woman artist.

Branden Books. pp. ISBN

5.^ Smith, Barbara; Steinem , Gloria ;Mink, Gwendolyn ;Navarro, Marysa (). The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. ISBN

6.^ Greer, Germaine (). The obstacle 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 have power over Women in the Arts. Formal Museum of Women in character Arts. Archived from the original on Retrieved "In , she and bare sister Sarah Miriam became blue blood the gentry first women to be determine members of the Pennsylvania Academy."

References

§"Sarah Peale".

Dinner Party database dead weight notable women. Brooklyn Museum. Amble 20, Retrieved 5 January

§Miller, Lillian B. The Peale Family: Creation of 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 Rotate.

Hunter and John Mahey: Lack Sarah Miriam Peale: –; portraits and still life; exhibition, Feb 5, through March 26, , The Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

External links

§Gallery of worksat the Society website. Accessed January

§Sarah Miriam PealeatFind a Grave