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Mary Jane Peale

Mary Jane Peale (1827 - 1902) was active/lived in New York.  Mary Peale is known for Portrait, still life, birds.

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, she and her father moved to Philadelphia. After his death in the late 1860s, she studied in Paris   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1606 characters.]  Artist bio

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