Only child and daughter of Franklin Peale and Eliza Greatrake.
Artist/Painter
Never married
Her father, Franklin Peale's education was informal, he did spend some time at a local school in nearby Bucks County, as well as at Germantown Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He made toys as a boy, and surveyed his father's farm near Germantown. Although he lacked the artistic talent of some of his brothers, such as Titian Peale, he proved mechanically inclined. He became adept in machine making.
At age 17, her father, Benjamin Peale began to work for the Delaware cotton factory of William Young, on the Brandywine River, learning the making of machines. He was an apt student, becoming adept as a turner, founder, and draftsman. He was tolerated in his desire for a mechanical career by his father, who considered it a foolish whim. Within a year, one of the Hodgson brothers, who ran a nearby machine shop, described Peale as highly capable with tools. At age 19 Peale returned to Germantown, where, having designed and supervised the installation of the machinery for a cotton factory there, he was put in charge, and continued to manage the factory for several years. He then moved to nearby Philadelphia, and worked for the firm of John & Coleman Sellers, which made machinery for card sticking.
Anna Peale Sellers grew up in Philadelphia and, being the granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale, was surrounded by the numerous artists of the Peale family. She studied in Rome in the 1860's and at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1876, 1877, and 1882. She exhibited at the Academy at 1866, 1867, and 1878. Her paintings are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.
On 7 May 1833, father sends a letter to his daughter., and on 8 May 1833, gives paternal advice. Suggests she study under (Thomas) Sully, since "his experience and judgment will be your best guide."
After her father's dismissal, Peale petitioned Congress for $30,000 as payment for improvements and inventions he had made for the government (likely for unpaid consulting work after his departure). The Senate twice, in 1858 and 1860, passed legislation to pay Peale $10,000, but the House of Representatives declined to vote on it. In 1870, it was introduced in the Senate again, but did not pass. Legislation to compensate Peale in the amount of $10,000 was enacted on March 3, 1873, after his death—the act was, according to its title, in relief of Anna E. Peale, Franklin Peale's daughter. The following month, Caroline Peale, Franklin's widow, gave the Mint a marble bust of her late husband, "to be set upon a pedestal, in some position, where it may be open to the inspection of visitors and preserve his memory to future generations." In 1966, one notes that the whereabouts of the bust is uncertain.
Will of Anna E. Peale
Singlewoman
Bequeath $5,000 to the Pennsylvania Hospital to endow a free bed for a female patient in the department for the insane
Bequeath $2,000 to the Home for the Friendless, in the City of New York
Bequeath $3,000 to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the education of Eurasian girls in India
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1850 Census (Philadelphia, Middle Ward, Philadelphia, PA)
Franklin Peale 56 Pennsylvania
Caroline Peale 48 Pennsylvania
Anna Peale 34 Pennsylvania
Ellen Mcgluisay 25 Ireland
Elizabeth Roserden 26 Ireland
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Anna Elizabeth Peale
BIRTH 25 Mar 1816, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
DEATH 7 Dec 1905, Wernersville, Berks Co., PA.
Anna E Peale
Service: 12/11/1905 Age: 90
Section: 8 Plot: 74
Other Plot Occupants
William Edward Haslam, Age: 1
Caroline E.G. Peale, Service: 10/08/1875 - Age: 75
Cecilia M Peale, Age: 1
Franklin Peale, Service: 05/09/1870 - Age: 74
Titian R. Peale, Service: 03/16/1885 - Age: 85
Artist/Painter
Never married
Her father, Franklin Peale's education was informal, he did spend some time at a local school in nearby Bucks County, as well as at Germantown Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He made toys as a boy, and surveyed his father's farm near Germantown. Although he lacked the artistic talent of some of his brothers, such as Titian Peale, he proved mechanically inclined. He became adept in machine making.
At age 17, her father, Benjamin Peale began to work for the Delaware cotton factory of William Young, on the Brandywine River, learning the making of machines. He was an apt student, becoming adept as a turner, founder, and draftsman. He was tolerated in his desire for a mechanical career by his father, who considered it a foolish whim. Within a year, one of the Hodgson brothers, who ran a nearby machine shop, described Peale as highly capable with tools. At age 19 Peale returned to Germantown, where, having designed and supervised the installation of the machinery for a cotton factory there, he was put in charge, and continued to manage the factory for several years. He then moved to nearby Philadelphia, and worked for the firm of John & Coleman Sellers, which made machinery for card sticking.
Anna Peale Sellers grew up in Philadelphia and, being the granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale, was surrounded by the numerous artists of the Peale family. She studied in Rome in the 1860's and at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1876, 1877, and 1882. She exhibited at the Academy at 1866, 1867, and 1878. Her paintings are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.
On 7 May 1833, father sends a letter to his daughter., and on 8 May 1833, gives paternal advice. Suggests she study under (Thomas) Sully, since "his experience and judgment will be your best guide."
After her father's dismissal, Peale petitioned Congress for $30,000 as payment for improvements and inventions he had made for the government (likely for unpaid consulting work after his departure). The Senate twice, in 1858 and 1860, passed legislation to pay Peale $10,000, but the House of Representatives declined to vote on it. In 1870, it was introduced in the Senate again, but did not pass. Legislation to compensate Peale in the amount of $10,000 was enacted on March 3, 1873, after his death—the act was, according to its title, in relief of Anna E. Peale, Franklin Peale's daughter. The following month, Caroline Peale, Franklin's widow, gave the Mint a marble bust of her late husband, "to be set upon a pedestal, in some position, where it may be open to the inspection of visitors and preserve his memory to future generations." In 1966, one notes that the whereabouts of the bust is uncertain.
Will of Anna E. Peale
Singlewoman
Bequeath $5,000 to the Pennsylvania Hospital to endow a free bed for a female patient in the department for the insane
Bequeath $2,000 to the Home for the Friendless, in the City of New York
Bequeath $3,000 to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the education of Eurasian girls in India
______________________________________________________________________
1850 Census (Philadelphia, Middle Ward, Philadelphia, PA)
Franklin Peale 56 Pennsylvania
Caroline Peale 48 Pennsylvania
Anna Peale 34 Pennsylvania
Ellen Mcgluisay 25 Ireland
Elizabeth Roserden 26 Ireland
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Anna Elizabeth Peale
BIRTH 25 Mar 1816, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
DEATH 7 Dec 1905, Wernersville, Berks Co., PA.
Anna E Peale
Service: 12/11/1905 Age: 90
Section: 8 Plot: 74
Other Plot Occupants
William Edward Haslam, Age: 1
Caroline E.G. Peale, Service: 10/08/1875 - Age: 75
Cecilia M Peale, Age: 1
Franklin Peale, Service: 05/09/1870 - Age: 74
Titian R. Peale, Service: 03/16/1885 - Age: 85
Only child and daughter of Franklin Peale and Eliza Greatrake.
Artist/Painter
Never married
Her father, Franklin Peale's education was informal, he did spend some time at a local school in nearby Bucks County, as well as at Germantown Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He made toys as a boy, and surveyed his father's farm near Germantown. Although he lacked the artistic talent of some of his brothers, such as Titian Peale, he proved mechanically inclined. He became adept in machine making.
At age 17, her father, Benjamin Peale began to work for the Delaware cotton factory of William Young, on the Brandywine River, learning the making of machines. He was an apt student, becoming adept as a turner, founder, and draftsman. He was tolerated in his desire for a mechanical career by his father, who considered it a foolish whim. Within a year, one of the Hodgson brothers, who ran a nearby machine shop, described Peale as highly capable with tools. At age 19 Peale returned to Germantown, where, having designed and supervised the installation of the machinery for a cotton factory there, he was put in charge, and continued to manage the factory for several years. He then moved to nearby Philadelphia, and worked for the firm of John & Coleman Sellers, which made machinery for card sticking.
Anna Peale Sellers grew up in Philadelphia and, being the granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale, was surrounded by the numerous artists of the Peale family. She studied in Rome in the 1860's and at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1876, 1877, and 1882. She exhibited at the Academy at 1866, 1867, and 1878. Her paintings are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.
On 7 May 1833, father sends a letter to his daughter., and on 8 May 1833, gives paternal advice. Suggests she study under (Thomas) Sully, since "his experience and judgment will be your best guide."
After her father's dismissal, Peale petitioned Congress for $30,000 as payment for improvements and inventions he had made for the government (likely for unpaid consulting work after his departure). The Senate twice, in 1858 and 1860, passed legislation to pay Peale $10,000, but the House of Representatives declined to vote on it. In 1870, it was introduced in the Senate again, but did not pass. Legislation to compensate Peale in the amount of $10,000 was enacted on March 3, 1873, after his death—the act was, according to its title, in relief of Anna E. Peale, Franklin Peale's daughter. The following month, Caroline Peale, Franklin's widow, gave the Mint a marble bust of her late husband, "to be set upon a pedestal, in some position, where it may be open to the inspection of visitors and preserve his memory to future generations." In 1966, one notes that the whereabouts of the bust is uncertain.
Will of Anna E. Peale
Singlewoman
Bequeath $5,000 to the Pennsylvania Hospital to endow a free bed for a female patient in the department for the insane
Bequeath $2,000 to the Home for the Friendless, in the City of New York
Bequeath $3,000 to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the education of Eurasian girls in India
______________________________________________________________________
1850 Census (Philadelphia, Middle Ward, Philadelphia, PA)
Franklin Peale 56 Pennsylvania
Caroline Peale 48 Pennsylvania
Anna Peale 34 Pennsylvania
Ellen Mcgluisay 25 Ireland
Elizabeth Roserden 26 Ireland
____________________________________________________________________
Anna Elizabeth Peale
BIRTH 25 Mar 1816, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
DEATH 7 Dec 1905, Wernersville, Berks Co., PA.
Anna E Peale
Service: 12/11/1905 Age: 90
Section: 8 Plot: 74
Other Plot Occupants
William Edward Haslam, Age: 1
Caroline E.G. Peale, Service: 10/08/1875 - Age: 75
Cecilia M Peale, Age: 1
Franklin Peale, Service: 05/09/1870 - Age: 74
Titian R. Peale, Service: 03/16/1885 - Age: 85
Artist/Painter
Never married
Her father, Franklin Peale's education was informal, he did spend some time at a local school in nearby Bucks County, as well as at Germantown Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He made toys as a boy, and surveyed his father's farm near Germantown. Although he lacked the artistic talent of some of his brothers, such as Titian Peale, he proved mechanically inclined. He became adept in machine making.
At age 17, her father, Benjamin Peale began to work for the Delaware cotton factory of William Young, on the Brandywine River, learning the making of machines. He was an apt student, becoming adept as a turner, founder, and draftsman. He was tolerated in his desire for a mechanical career by his father, who considered it a foolish whim. Within a year, one of the Hodgson brothers, who ran a nearby machine shop, described Peale as highly capable with tools. At age 19 Peale returned to Germantown, where, having designed and supervised the installation of the machinery for a cotton factory there, he was put in charge, and continued to manage the factory for several years. He then moved to nearby Philadelphia, and worked for the firm of John & Coleman Sellers, which made machinery for card sticking.
Anna Peale Sellers grew up in Philadelphia and, being the granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale, was surrounded by the numerous artists of the Peale family. She studied in Rome in the 1860's and at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1876, 1877, and 1882. She exhibited at the Academy at 1866, 1867, and 1878. Her paintings are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.
On 7 May 1833, father sends a letter to his daughter., and on 8 May 1833, gives paternal advice. Suggests she study under (Thomas) Sully, since "his experience and judgment will be your best guide."
After her father's dismissal, Peale petitioned Congress for $30,000 as payment for improvements and inventions he had made for the government (likely for unpaid consulting work after his departure). The Senate twice, in 1858 and 1860, passed legislation to pay Peale $10,000, but the House of Representatives declined to vote on it. In 1870, it was introduced in the Senate again, but did not pass. Legislation to compensate Peale in the amount of $10,000 was enacted on March 3, 1873, after his death—the act was, according to its title, in relief of Anna E. Peale, Franklin Peale's daughter. The following month, Caroline Peale, Franklin's widow, gave the Mint a marble bust of her late husband, "to be set upon a pedestal, in some position, where it may be open to the inspection of visitors and preserve his memory to future generations." In 1966, one notes that the whereabouts of the bust is uncertain.
Will of Anna E. Peale
Singlewoman
Bequeath $5,000 to the Pennsylvania Hospital to endow a free bed for a female patient in the department for the insane
Bequeath $2,000 to the Home for the Friendless, in the City of New York
Bequeath $3,000 to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the education of Eurasian girls in India
______________________________________________________________________
1850 Census (Philadelphia, Middle Ward, Philadelphia, PA)
Franklin Peale 56 Pennsylvania
Caroline Peale 48 Pennsylvania
Anna Peale 34 Pennsylvania
Ellen Mcgluisay 25 Ireland
Elizabeth Roserden 26 Ireland
____________________________________________________________________
Anna Elizabeth Peale
BIRTH 25 Mar 1816, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
DEATH 7 Dec 1905, Wernersville, Berks Co., PA.
Anna E Peale
Service: 12/11/1905 Age: 90
Section: 8 Plot: 74
Other Plot Occupants
William Edward Haslam, Age: 1
Caroline E.G. Peale, Service: 10/08/1875 - Age: 75
Cecilia M Peale, Age: 1
Franklin Peale, Service: 05/09/1870 - Age: 74
Titian R. Peale, Service: 03/16/1885 - Age: 85
Gravesite Details
Buried on 11 Dec 1905 at the Laurel Hill Cemetery. Rests with her father and step-mother.
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