Mary Jane Peale
Mary Jane Peale (born New York City, February 16, 1827 - died Pottsville, Pennsylvania, November, 1902) was an American painter. She was the child of Rubens and Eliza Burd Patterson Peale, the only daughter among seven children, and was the granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale. She was among the last members of the Peale family to paint professionally, studying with her uncle Rembrandt and with Thomas Sully in Philadelphia, and was enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
She produced mainly portraits and still lifes, many of which featured flowers.Today her work may be seen at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art, and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, among other museums.
She maintained a greenhouse at the Peale family home.[1]
She is credited with teaching her father to paint, after his retirement, and there is evidence that some of the works attributed to him (such as Wedding Cake, Wine, Almonds, and Raisins and Rubens Peale in His Studio) may have instead been collaborative creations between the two.[2] After Rubens died in 1865, Mary Jane finished the paintings he had been working on.[3]
References
- ↑ Miller, Lillian B; Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art (1996-01-01). The Peale family: creation of a legacy, 1770-1870. New York: Abbeville Press in association with the Trust for Museum Exhibitions and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0789202069.
- ↑ Miller, Lillian B; Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art (1996-01-01). The Peale family: creation of a legacy, 1770-1870. New York: Abbeville Press in association with the Trust for Museum Exhibitions and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0789202069.
- ↑ Gerdts, William H; Burke, Russell E (1971-01-01). American still-life painting. New York: Praeger.
- Portrait of Eliza Burd Patterson Peale at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
- MARY JANE PEALE DEAD.; She Was the Last of Family of Famous Portrait Painters.
- Mary Peale at artnet
- The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy: 1770-1870. Lillian B. Miller, ed. Abbeville Press, 1996.