page_title: James Peale
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: James Peale / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Painting Portrait of Margaretta Peale by James Peale
context_page_description: James Peale was an American painter, best known for his miniature and still life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale.
context_section_description: In 1782 he married Mary Claypoole (1753-1828), a daughter of James Claypoole and sister of portrait painter James Claypoole Jr., after which he established his own household and artistic career. Together, Mary and James were the parents of seven children, three of whom became accomplished painters in their own right, including:
  Maria Claypoole Peale (1787–1866) also became a painter of still lifes, though of less distinction than her sisters.
  James Peale Jr. (1789–1876), who married his cousin, Sophonisba Peale (1801–1878), daughter of Raphaelle Peale.
  Anna Claypoole Peale (1791–1878), a miniaturist and still-life painter
  Margaretta Angelica Peale (1796–1882), painter of trompe l’oeil subjects and tabletop fruit
  Sarah Miriam Peale (1800–1885), a portraitist and still-life painter
  Jane Ramsay Peale
  Eleanor Peale.
  Peale died in Philadelphia on May 24, 1831 and is buried at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church cemetery along with this wife and six children.
caption: Margaretta Angelica Peale, one of the painter's daughters
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