Harriet Cany Peale

Family Harriet Christina Cany was born in 1799, the daughter of Charles and Mary Cany, in Philadelphia. She was widowed sometime before 1840, and worked in her family's "fancy goods business." She studied with the artist Rembrandt Peale, whom she married in 1840, becoming his second wife. Her association with the more famous Peale usually places her within the famous Peale family of painters, overshadowing her individual achievements as an artist in her own right.

Career Harriet Cany Peale first exhibited in 1840 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she continued to exhibit for the rest of her life, as well as at the Artists' Fund Society. She and her husband shared a studio in Philadelphia. alt=Harriet Cany Peale. Kaaterskill Clove, 1858. Hudson River School landscape (private collection). Harriet Cany Peale. Kaaterskill Clove, 1858. Hudson River School landscape (private collection). Her landscape, Kaaterskill Clove (also in a private collection), was the key landscape image of the 2010 traveling exhibition, "Remember the Ladies: Women Artists of the Hudson River School," organized by the Thomas Cole Historic Site.

Harriet Cany Peale died in 1869.

Collections Charles S. and Isabella V. McMullen Museum, Boston College, Boston, MA Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD