Harriet Christina Cany Peale

Place: Philadelphia

Born: 1799

Death: 1869

Biography:

Harriet Christina Cany Peale (1799– 12 January 1869) was an American landscape, portrait, and genre painter of the mid-nineteenth century. Although sometimes described as a copyist, a greater share of her oeuvre has been made public in recent years, allowing Cany Peale to earn recognition for her genre and landscape paintings. She has been located in contemporary scholarship as an artist of the Hudson River School.