JAMES PEALE (1749-1831)

A young Lady called A. Sisters, facing right in frill-bordered black dress with white underslip, double strand black necklace, black bandeau in her curling hair

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JAMES PEALE (1749-1831)
A young Lady called A. Sisters, facing right in frill-bordered black dress with white underslip, double strand black necklace, black bandeau in her curling hair
signed with initials and dated 'IP 1797' (lower right)
oval, 2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the reverse engraved with the sitter's name, with central lock of plaited hair within blue glass surround

拍品專文

Dale Johnson (exhibition catalogue American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection, New York, 1990-1991, p. 167) describes Peale 'as one of the country's finest miniature painters'. In 1769, Peale became assistant to his brother Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) and by 1771 he had learnt the techniques of watercolour and oil painting that was to keep him constantly busy. Peale married Mary Claypoole, daughter of the painter James Claypoole (1720-1796) and of their seven children at least five were artists including Anna Claypoole Peale (see lots 82 and 91).