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Anna Claypoole Peale was an American miniature painter.
Background
Anna Claypoole Peale was born on March 6, 1791 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. She was the daughter of Mary Claypoole and James Peale. Her grandfather, James Claypoole, was said to be the first native Pennsylvania artist. Her uncle, Charles Willson Peale, her cousins, and her father provided an artistic family background, and she was reared in one of the most cultivated cities of the early republic at a time when miniature painting was practised and appreciated.
Education
Anna Claypoole Peale studied with her father the technique of oil painting and also of water color on ivory.
Career
Anna Claypoole Peale's first picture to be exhibited was a still life of fruit shown in Philadelphia in 1811 when she was twenty years old. Soon afterward she achieved some success as a miniaturist and painted portraits of many persons of social and political eminence. The most active period of her work extended from 1820 to 1840. Most of her miniatures were painted in Philadelphia and Baltimore, although she also worked in Boston and Washington. A Baltimore paper of 1822 in announcing that she was prepared to paint portraits in miniature stated that examples of her work were on exhibition at the Museum. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was represented in the early exhibitions of the Boston Athen'um. Anna Peale painted miniatures of Andrew Jackson and his wife in 1819, two of her earliest known portraits; of Commodore Bainbridge, President James Monroe, Dr. Oliver Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rodenwald (1825), Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Dexler, General and Madame Lallemand; and of such attractive young women as Eleanor Britton, Jane Brown, and Margaret Hart Simmons.
Only about thirty miniatures by Anna Claypoole Peale are known, but she must have painted several times that number. Most of her work is owned by descendants of her subjects, although a few examples may be seen in museums. Among these are the portraits of Madame Lallemand in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and of Mrs. Nathan Endicott in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The miniatures are signed with any of her names. On the back of one portrait she wrote: "Miniature of Angelica Vallaye by Anna Peale, widow of Dr. Staughton, also widow of General Duncan. " Frequently she signed her miniatures on the front in very small letters "Anna Claypoole Peale" with the date. Sometimes the signature and date are scratched in with a needle.
Her technique is detailed and careful. Anna Claypoole Peale usually painted flesh surfaces in high colors with great complexity of stroke, a technique which gives somewhat the effect of oil painting. Frequently there are brilliant contrasts of light and shade and the backgrounds are usually dark. Her miniatures are always sprightly and pleasing, though less important artistically than those of her father or of her uncle Charles Willson Peale. Anna Claypoole Peale died on December 25, 1878.
Achievements
Anna Claypoole Peale was famous for her portrait miniatures. She was among the country’s first professional women artists, and pursued a career that propelled her into the public realm and beyond the typical domestic confines of women’s lives in the 19th century. Peale made portrait miniatures of several prominent statesmen, including Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Bainbridge and President James Monroe. Her miniatures and portraits of both famous and ordinary people have been collected by curators around the world, and her work and life inspire artists and non-artists alike.
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Connections
Anna Claypoole Peale was twice married: in 1829 to Dr. William Staughton, an able minister and educator, who died in the same year, and in 1841 to Gen. William Duncan, whom she also survived. She had no children by either marriage.
