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Anna Claypoole Peale: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born March 6, 1791 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died December 25, 1878 (aged 87) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania

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Portrait of a Woman, watercolour on ivory by Anna Claypoole Peale, 1818; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Fassett, Cornelia Adele Strong
Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett
American painter
“Joshua and the Fall of Jericho” from Flavius Josephus' Antiquités judaïques, manuscript illuminated by Jean Fouquet, c. 1474; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Fr. 247)
Jean Fouquet
French painter
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Bichitr
Indian painter
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey
French painter
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Bishandas
Indian painter
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Āqā Mīrak
Persian painter
Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross  (The Gross Clinic)
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald
American artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander
Pakistani-American artist
Kehinde Wiley smiling at the 2021 LACMA Art + Film Gala, wearing a black tuxedo jacket with blue floral embroidery and a black bow tie.
Kehinde Wiley
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning
American painter and writer
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Chuck Close
American artist
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Alice Neel
American painter
Man Ray was a photographer, painter, and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Man Ray
American photographer and painter
Portrait of John Singer Sargent in profile, wearing a suit and tie, facing to the right with a trimmed beard and short hair.
John Singer Sargent
Italian-born American painter
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
American artist
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Charles Willson Peale
American painter
Eleanor Roosevelt and Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux
American painter

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