Rose Peckham

Rosa (Rose) Frances Peckham Danielson, born October 28, 1842, in Killingly, Connecticut, was a nineteenth-century portrait and landscape artist. She was a founder of the Providence Art Club, where she was also the first female board member, serving as secretary and then as vice president. During her lifetime, her works were displayed at the Paris Salon on three occasions, and she exhibited at the Boston Art Club and the Providence Art Club. She had five siblings, including Katherine Fenner, Fenner H, Ella Lois Torrey, Grace, and Mary Davis, three of whom went on to become doctors. She attended the Académie Julian starting in 1876, studying under Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

Portrait of May Alcott Her most famous work is the Portrait of May Alcott, painted in 1877.

Other works Peckham also painted many other portraits, miniatures, and landscapes. Some of her early works, most of which were portraits, included Farm with Pond (1869), untitled landscape (c. 1869), Portrait of William E. Richmond (1871), Portrait of Katherine Peckham (1877), Portrait of the Artist's Father, Dr. Fenner Harris Peckham (1878), Self Portrait (probably before 1881, Bowstead Collection), Portrait of Dr. Fenner Harris Peckham, Jr. (before 1881), Portrait of Rev. Augustus Woodbury (before 1881, destroyed), untitled cityscape (c. 1880), and Whitman Danielson at Four Months (1882). Her later works include two untitled landscapes (c. 1888), Rosamond Danielson (1888), Whitman Danielson (1890), Danielson Family Home, William Torrey Harris Birthplace, Venice (1891), Venice (with Domes) (1891), Venice (Doge's Palace) (1891), Venice (?) (1891), Infanta Margarita, Portrait of Katherine Peckham (1892, Bowstead Collection), Portrait of Edith and Grace Baldwin, (early 1890s, Whipple Collection, Putnam, CT), Study of a Girl (Grace Baldwin?), Girl Picking Flower (Grace Baldwin?) (1880?), Double Portrait (Rose Peckham Danielson and Katherine Baldwin?) (1892?), Whitman Danielson (1897), and Rosamond Danielson (1897). She also painted Landscape Painting (1869), Breton Headdress (aka Costumed Child) (1880, Providence Art Club), [Schooners at Port] (1880, Providence Art Club), and Portrait of Woman (ca. 1880). Most of these can be found in the Brainard Collection in Putnam, Connecticut, unless otherwise stated.