Anna C. Peale, who was one of the best
miniature painters of her day, inherited her
artistic talents from her maternal grandfather,
James Claypoole, as well as from her father's
family. She executed a large number of por-
traits in miniature in Philadelphia, Boston,
New York, and Washington. Miss Peale
married the Reverend William Staughton,
D.D., a very popular preacher in his day, and
some years after his death became the third
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Madame Lallemand Mrs. Richard Harlan

By Anna Claypoole Peale

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Angelica Vallaye

By Anna Claypoole Peale

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HEIRLOOMS IN MINIATURES

wife of General William Duncan. The fact
that this artist painted under her different
names has led to some confusion in classify-
ing her work, although some of Anna Peale's
miniatures have all three names written on the
backs. One, of Angelica Vallaye, is marked
" Miniature of Angelica Vallaye, by Anna Peale,
widow Dr. Staughton, also widow of General
Duncan," which is certainly sufficiently ex-
plicit. Another portrait is marked " Minia-
ture by Anna Duncan, ne Anna Peale, of the
daughter of Stephen Girard's brother, M me>
Lallemand (Agnes Clark)."*

Anna C. Peale also painted miniatures of
General Lallemand, of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
P. Dexter, of Massachusetts, of Commodore
Bainbridge, and of General and Mrs. Andrew
Jackson. The latter miniature was painted in
1819, when Mrs. Jackson was fifty-two years
of age, and in the costume worn by her at a
ball given to General Jackson in New Orleans,
after the victory of the eighth of January .f



* This miniature is incorrectly marked, as Madame Lal-
lemand's name was Harriet. She was a daughter of Jean
Girard, a brother of Stephen Girard, the founder of Girard
College, Philadelphia. Harriet Girard, when very young,
married Henri Dominique Lallemand, one of Napoleon's
exiled generals, who had followed his commander's fortunes
through the Hundred Days and fought at Waterloo. Gen-
eral Lallemand died in 1823, and his young widow married
Dr. John Y. Clark, of Philadelphia.
