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.