Mary Jane Peale: The Forgotten Peale Painter

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dc.contributor.authorMarsh, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-14T13:59:32Z
dc.date.available2022-11-14T13:59:32Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-17
dc.description.abstractPeale children were encouraged to pursue art at a time when professional female artists were rare. Mary Jane Peale, Charles Willson’s granddaughter, is the least known of Peale family artists. The APS is fortunate to have her diaries, letters, and notes in its collections. Despite proposals of marriage, Mary Jane remained single, and led a rich life as an unmarried artist. In the 1860s, she traveled Europe—to Paris, Geneva, and Luxembourg, among other places—to see its museums and painting collections. In the 1870s, she mingled with the nation’s intellectual elite in Washington—the Smithsonian’s Joseph Henry and Spencer Baird, as well as biologist Louis Agassiz and geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. When she died at age 72, her obituary proclaimed that this “well-known portrait painter” was the “last of family of famous portrait painters.” Today, her work is held at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art, and the Westmoreland Museum of Art.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/z6lg-dpkh
dc.identifier.citationD.E. Marsh 2017. Mary Jane Peale: The Forgotten Peale Painter. American Philosophical Society Blog: https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/mary-jane-peale-forgotten-peale-painteren_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29467
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Philosophical Society Blogen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Information Studiesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtInformation Studiesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectMary Jane Pealeen_US
dc.subjectPeale familyen_US
dc.subjectpaintingen_US
dc.subjectart historyen_US
dc.subjectPeale paintingsen_US
dc.subjectAPSen_US
dc.subjectAmerican Philosophical Societyen_US
dc.subjectcurious revolutionariesen_US
dc.subjectRembrandt Pealeen_US
dc.subjectCharles Willson Pealeen_US
dc.titleMary Jane Peale: The Forgotten Peale Painteren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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