Sarah Miriam Peale

Sarah Miriam Peale
Self Portrait by Sarah Miriam Peale, 1818
Born(1800-05-19)May 19, 1800
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedFebruary 19, 1885(1885-02-19) (aged 84)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forStill life; portraiture
Still Life with Watermelon, 1822

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.[1] 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.

  1. ^ Ogden, Kate (2016). "The Peale Family of Painters". Rutgers University: Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 6 January 2017.