Mary Jane Peale and Peale family selected papers
name: label: Creator
content: Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902
label: Names
content: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
label: Names
content: Peale, Eliza Burd Patterson
label: Names
content: Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870
label: Names
content: Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilm reels 3900-3901 purchased from American Philosophical Society. Material on reel 3904 microfilmed 1987 by Archives of American Art as part of AAA's Philadelphia Documentation Project. The collection was assembled primarily by Mary Jane Peale, who copied or had copied many family documents. Only original materials were microfilmed.
creator: label: Creator
content: Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mary Jane Peale (1827-1902) was a painter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale and daughter of Rubens Peale, she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also received painting instruction from her uncle, Rembrandt Peale. She is credited with teaching her father to paint after his retirement.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Microfilm reels (1 linear foot on 3 microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1815-1897
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pealmarj
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3900-3901 and 3904 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Reel 3904 also available at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the American Philosophical Society.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Finding aid prepared by American Philosophical Society on microfilm reel 3904.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The microfilmed Mary Jane Peale and Peale family selected papers contain Mary Jane Peale's diaries and letters, as well as papers she collected relating to Rubens Peale, Eliza Burd Patterson Peale, and the Peale family. Microfilmed on Reels 3900-3901 are 10 volumes of Mary Jane Peale's diaries which contain domestic and social news, as well as discussions of Mary Jane's paintings. The bulk of the material microfilmed on Reel 3904 relates to Mary Jane Peale, including correspondence; a list of paintings by Peale, as well as a list of paintings owned by Peale; a volume on oil painting; and Peale's will. The materials relating to the family include letters between Rubens Peale and his wife, Eliza Burd Patterson Peale; letters from Rubens Peale to Franklin Peale; letters from Mrs. Peale to friends and family; and an inventory of pictures in the parlor.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art holds the Rembrandt and Harriet Peale collection, circa 1820-1932 and the Rubens Peale diaries, 1855-1865. Also found at the Archives of American Art are the microfilmed Charles Willson Peale diaries and exhibition announcement, 1765-1826; microfilmed printed material relating to Rembrandt Peale, 1830-1862; microfilmed Titian Ramsay Peale Collection, 1771-1876; microfilmed selected Peale family papers, 1803-1854; microfilmed selected papers from the Peale-Sellers collection, circa 1767-1904; and microfilmed Augusta Barker papers, 1875-1887. 

The American Philosophical Society holds the Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963 and the Peale family papers, 1705-1898.