Anna Claypoole Peale
1812
8.0 x 7.0 cm
James Peale (1749 – 1831)
James Peale (1749-1831) was een Amerikaanse schilder, bekend om zijn delicate portretten en levendige stillevenschilderingen. Zijn werk vangt de essentie van het koloniale Amerika met neoclassieke gratie en is nauw verbonden met zijn broer Charles Willson Peale.
James Peale trained his daughter Anna Claypoole Peale in the art of painting miniature portraits in watercolor on ivory. She began her career assisting him with his work when his eyesight began to fail, but eventually pursued the medium on her own—as it was, according to her father, "the most suitable employment for a lady." During her lifetime, she completed more than two hundred miniatures, including the two portraits displayed here. In 1824, she and her sister Sarah Miriam Peale were elected academicians at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts—the first women so honored.
Over dit kunstwerk
- Titel: Anna Claypoole Peale
- Kunstenaar: James Peale
- Jaar: 1812
- Oorspronkelijke afmetingen: 8.0 x 7.0 cm
- Formaat: Portrait
- Auteursrechtelijke status: Publiek domein
- Hoofdkleur: Black
- Kleurintensiteit: Monochromatic