Sarah Miriam Peale

Sarah Miriam Peale ( born May 19, 1800, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † February 4, 1885 ibid ) was an American painter who still lives, but mainly painted portraits. Peale remained unmarried and earned the extent known as the first painter in the United States with painting their livelihood.

Life

Peale was the youngest daughter of the painter James Peale and the niece of Charles Willson Peale. Her older sisters Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878) and Margaretta Angelica Peale (1795-1882) were also painters. About her mother, Mary Chambers Claypoole Peale descended from Oliver Cromwell.

In training as a painter Peale played definitely her father a significant role. Other members of the Peale family of artists are called branched than their teachers, but were only partially available. Her uncle Charles Willson Peale, founder of the artist family tradition, had retired in 1810 on a farm near German Town. Her cousin Rembrandt Peale stayed several times in Europe and then went to Baltimore, where he established a museum. Raphaelle Peale your cousin, also an excellent artist who suffered from alcohol and marital problems.

Peale's first painting was ( not atypical for their family ) a self-portrait, which was built around 1818. Even at this time presented Peale from the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ( PAFA ). Hunter even reports that they are already there in 1817 Flowers exhibited. 1818 it issued in 1819 and portraits and still life portraits. This continues in the coming years. At the latest at this time was Charles Willson Peale attention to their talent.

1824 Peale Anna Claypoole Peale and her sister were appointed by the PAFA as the first women ever to Academicians. Unlike Anna Sarah Miriam Peale continued but rarely the award PA after their names.

Both in 1818 and 1820, held on Peale Museum in Baltimore, her cousin Rembrandt Peale and studied his art. Took over in 1822 when Rubens Peale Museum, Sarah Miriam Peale Anna Claypoole Peale and exhibited there and Sarah Miriam Peale took over in Baltimore a few portrait commissions. 1825 Peale moved permanently to Baltimore and stayed there 22 years. ( Was when the museum is closed ) Until 1829 she had her job at the museum. Alone from the Baltimore time are known more than 100 paintings. Other artists in Baltimore were Jacob Eichholtz, John Vanderlyn, John Wesley Jarvis, Thomas Sully, Chester Harding, WJ Hubard, John C. Darley, John Beale Bordley and Alfred Jacob Miller. Peale painted more portraits than any single one of them, together possibly as many as all.

In the early 1840s Peale traveled several times to Washington, DC to paint significant politician. 1846 worsened the health Peale and she pulled at the invitation of Nathaniel Child to St. Louis, where she remained for 30 years. In the 1860s and 1870s Peale's interest lay back on still life. 1878 returned Peale returned to Philadelphia to live with her sisters Anna Claypoole and Margaretta Angelica.

Works

  • Self Portrait, 1818, oil on canvas, 61.2 × 48.3 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  • Anna Maria Smyth, 1821, oil on canvas, 91.4 × 71.1 cm, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
  • Fruits and Wine, 1822, oil on canvas, 29.8 × 40.6 cm
  • Mrs. Rubens Peale and Son, 1823, oil on canvas, 76.2 × 60.9 cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore
  • Jose Silvestre Rabello, 1826, oil on canvas, 70.5 × 89.2 cm, Brazilian Embassy Collection, Washington, DC
  • Still Life: Grapes and Watermelon, 1828, oil on canvas, 36.2 × 48.3 cm, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore
  • Peaches and Grapes in a Porcelain Bowl, 1829, oil on canvas, 29.8 × 38.1 cm, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
  • Self Portrait, 1830, oil on canvas, 68.6 × 50.8 cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore City Life Museum
  • Charles Lavallen Jessop ( Boy on a Rocking Horse ), 1840, oil on canvas, 90.1 x 106 cm
  • Mrs. William Crane, 1840, 75.6 × 62.9 cm, San Diego Museum of Art, California
  • Charlotte Ramsay Bobinson, 1840, oil on canvas, oval, 96.5 x 66 cm, The Peale Museum, Baltimore City Life Museum
  • Henry Alexander Wise, 1842, oil on canvas, 74.9 × 62.2 cm, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
  • Senator Thomas Hart Benton, 1842, oil on canvas, 76.2 × 63.5 cm, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
  • Basket of Berries, 1860, oil on canvas, oval, 30.5 x 25.4 cm
  • Senator Lewis Fields Linn, oil on canvas, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
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