An American art history thread:
A watercolor on Ivory of American artist Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878) by her father, James Peale (1749-1831), two of the many early American Peale family artists. Image via @cincyartmuseum. @WomenInTheArts

“Anna Claypoole Peale [left] was the artist James Peale’s daughter and a frequent exhibitor at the PA Academy of Fine Arts [ @pafamuseum]...She and her sister, Sarah Miriam Peale, were the first women elected academicians of the academy.” Painting by her father via @americanart

Here is an example of her work, an ivory portrait miniature of Marianne Beckett by Anna Claypoole Peale ca. 1829, also via the @cincyartmuseum.

Here is a self portrait by her older sister, Sarah Miriam Peale (1800 - 1885) via @ngadc

Their father’s older brother, Charles Wilson Peale, painted this portrait of Washington after the Battle of Princeton - via @PAFAcademy

What started me on this thread? The cover page of my 1826 copy of “American Natural History” by John D. Godman is by “J. Peale Jr.”, a sibling of Anna and Sarah Peale below. I knew none of this prior to noticing his name and asking “who’s that?”

Another Peale tie to my personal library, this map from my copy of the ‘Smithsonian Annual Report for the year 1861 is by scientific illustrator Titian Ramsay Peale, a cousin of Anna and Sarah Peale. @SILibraries

Last one, I’d be remiss if I didn’t include the most famous of the Peale family of painters, Rembrandt Peale, half-brother to Titian Ramsey Peale below. This is his self portrait at the @DIADetroit.