A specialist in portraiture and still life, Mary Jane Peale was one of the last of the famous Peale family of Philadelphia to paint those subjects. She was born in New York City, and was the daughter... Read full biography
A specialist in portraiture and still life, Mary Jane Peale was one of the last of the famous Peale family of Philadelphia to paint those subjects. She was born in New York City, and was the daughter of Rubens Peale who had a museum in New York. However, she spent most of her life in Philadelphia.... Read full biography
A specialist in portraiture and still life, Mary Jane Peale was one of the last of the famous Peale family of Philadelphia to paint those subjects. She was born in New York City, and was the daughter of Rubens Peale who had a museum in New York. However, she spent most of her life in Philadelphia. She was also the granddaughter of painter Charles Willson Peale, and the niece of portraitist Rembrandt Peale, with whom she took her first lessons and then studied with Thomas Sully. While living at... Read full biography
A specialist in portraiture and still life, Mary Jane Peale was one of the last of the famous Peale family of Philadelphia to paint those subjects. She was born in New York City, and was the daughter of Rubens Peale who had a museum in New York. However, she spent most of her life in Philadelphia. She was also the granddaughter of painter Charles Willson Peale, and the niece of portraitist Rembrandt Peale, with whom she took her first lessons and then studied with Thomas Sully. While living at the family home in Pottsville, rural Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1856-1858, and her teacher there was Thomas Eakins. Her father, Rubens, started painting in 1855, late in his life,... Read full biography
A specialist in portraiture and still life, Mary Jane Peale was one of the last of the famous Peale family of Philadelphia to paint those subjects. She was born in New York City, and was the daughter of Rubens Peale who had a museum in New York. However, she spent most of her life in Philadelphia. She was also the granddaughter of painter Charles Willson Peale, and the niece of portraitist Rembrandt Peale, with whom she took her first lessons and then studied with Thomas Sully. While living at the family home in Pottsville, rural Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1856-1858, and her teacher there was Thomas Eakins. Her father, Rubens, started painting in 1855, late in his life, and it is thought learned from his daughter as they worked side by side. When her mother, Eliza Burd Patterson Peale, died in 1864... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (30)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Neville-Strass Collection: American Women Artists 1819-1947 (Washington County Museum of Fine Arts) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Hirshorn, Anne; Page Talbott, Tara Tappert; Marian Kovinick
48 pages (color)
American Women Artists, 1819-1947 The Neville-Strass Collection
2003
Strass, Stephanie (Essay)
48 pages (color)
The Sellars Collection: Art by American Women (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Rice, Sue Sellars
12 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Schwarz, Robert Devlin
130 pages (color)
The Peale Family Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Miller, Lillian (editor)
320 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
American Paintings for New Collectors
1991
Schwarz-Philadelphia
64 pages
Art by American Women Collection Louise and Alan Sellars (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Sternberg, Paul E
146 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
American Women Artists 1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Tufts, Eleanor (others)
256 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest
48 pages (color)
The Pennsylvania Academy And Its Women (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Pennsylvania Academy
48 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hill, M Brawley
60 pages
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned) (Exhibition catalog)
1967
North Carolina Museum of Art
192 pages
Women Artists of America 1707-1964 (Exhibition catalog)