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Sarah Miriam Peale
1800–1885 · American
- Born
- 1800 · Philadelphia
- Died
- 1885 · Philadelphia
2 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Sarah Miriam Peale was an American portrait painter, considered the first American woman to succeed as a professional artist. She painted portraits of notables, politicians, and military figures, including Lafayette.
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Sarah Miriam Peale (May 19, 1800 – February 4, 1885) was an American portrait painter, considered the first American woman to succeed as a professional artist. One of a family of artists of whom her uncle Charles Willson Peale was the most illustrious, Sarah Peale painted portraits mainly of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. notables, politicians, and military figures. Lafayette sat for her four times.
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Selected registered works by Sarah Miriam Peale
Selected from 2 works by Sarah Miriam Peale in the Collect24 Registry.
Sarah Miriam Peale
Mary Leypold Griffith (1838 - 1841), 1841
oil on canvas
90.2 × 78.1 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-139208
Sarah Miriam Peale
Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait, c. 1818
Oil on canvas
59.7 × 45.7 cm
National Portrait Gallery
C24-122358
Sarah Miriam Peale
Still Life with Watermelon, 1822
Oil on panel
46.4 × 67 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-119141
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Where works by Sarah Miriam Peale are registered
- National Portrait Gallery
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
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