Rachel (Brewer) Peale
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Rachel (Brewer) Peale (1744 - 1790)

Rachel Peale formerly Brewer
Born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 12 Jan 1762 in Arundel, Marylandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 45 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
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Biography

Rachel Brewer was the boyhood sweetheart of American painter Charles Peale.[1] They were married on January 12, 1762 in Anne Arundel, Maryland.[2] She was the mother of:

Margaret Janes Peale (1763-1763).
James Willson Peale (1765-1767).
Eleanor Peale (1770-1770).
Margaret Van Bordley Peale (1772-1772).
Raphaelle (1774-1825),
Angelica (1775-1853),
Rembrandt (1778-1860),
Titian Ramsay I (1780-1798),
Rubens (1784-1865),
Sophonisba Angusciola (1786-1859), and
Rosalba Carriera (1788-1790), and a stepmother to Charles Peale Polk and Betsy Polk, the children her brother-in-law, Captain Bobby Polk who did in battle during the Revolutionary War and Elizabeth Peale Polk who died of tuberculosis. A young art student who was the General Hugh Mercer, killed at Princeton, also lived with the family.

Rachel's health declined gradually. At the end she asked that her children be brought to her for farewells. Charles feared seeing all seven would be too difficult for her, so he brought them one by one. Rachel Brewer Peale died April 12, 1790 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sources

  1. Charles Coleman Sellers, "Mr. Peale's Museum," W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (New York, 1980) pp. 2-3.
  2. "Maryland, Marriages, 1666-1970," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4J5-P2Q : accessed 10 Sep 2014), Charles Peele and Rachel Brewer, 12 Jan 1762; citing Anne Arundel, Maryland, reference ; FHL microfilm 13148.




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