Artist

Anna Claypoole Peale

Portrait of Anna Claypoole Peale
Portrait of Anna Claypoole Peale

American, 1791–1878

Anna Claypoole Peale was an American Romanticism painter. 10 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors. Anna Claypoole Peale was born in Philadelphia.

Anna Claypoole Peale (March 6, 1791 – December 25, 1878) was an American painter who specialized in portrait miniatures on ivory and still lifes. She and her sister, Sarah Miriam Peale, were the first women elected academicians of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Works by Anna Claypoole Peale

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