Portrait of a girl in a blue dress
Portrait Miniature
1817 (made)
1817 (made)
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Anna Claypoole Peale was a highly succesful miniature painter in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century. She worked as a professional painter as early as age 14 and was elected an Academician of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1824. Peale came from a renowned family of Pennsylvania portrait painters, including her father James Peale and her uncle Charles Wilson Peale. Although the family was associated with abolitionism, the Peales are known to have enslaved multiple people, including the silhouette artist Moses Williams, who was likely taught the art alongside the Peale children.
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Title | Portrait of a girl in a blue dress (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on ivory |
Brief description | Portrait miniature, Portrait of a girl, by Anna Claypoole Peale, watercolour on ivory, 1817 |
Physical description | Oval portrait miniature on ivory in a papier-mache frame of a little girl in a blue dress, signed and dated by the artist. |
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Historical context | Portrait miniatures were frequently exchanged between loved ones and family during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century as tokens of affection and remembrance. |
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Summary | Anna Claypoole Peale was a highly succesful miniature painter in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century. She worked as a professional painter as early as age 14 and was elected an Academician of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1824. Peale came from a renowned family of Pennsylvania portrait painters, including her father James Peale and her uncle Charles Wilson Peale. Although the family was associated with abolitionism, the Peales are known to have enslaved multiple people, including the silhouette artist Moses Williams, who was likely taught the art alongside the Peale children. |
Bibliographic reference | Anne Hirshorn, 'Legacy of Ivory: Anne Claypoole Peale's Portrait Miniatures,' Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 64 no. 4 (1989). |
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Accession number | P.6-1982 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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