Elizabeth DePeyster Peale
(1765-1804)
BIRTH
1765
PLACE
NAME
Elizabeth DePeyster
DEATH
1804
PLACE
Philadelphia, PA
FAMILY
FATHER
William de Peyster Jr.
(1735-1803)
MOTHER
Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers
(1797–1856)
MOTHER
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson
(1802–1857)
HUSBAND
Charles Willson Peale
(1741-1827)
CHILDREN
Charles Linnaeus Peale
(1794-1832)
CHILDREN
Franklin Peale
(1795-1870)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale (1765–1804) was a New York merchant’s daughter who became Charles Willson Peale’s second wife in June 1791. She cared for six surviving children from his first marriage and bore six more, including Franklin and Titian Ramsay Peale. Her husband’s 1798 portrait shows her wearing his miniature likeness, linking family life with its artistic work. She died in 1804, while the Peale household sustained his Philadelphia museum.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth DePeyster Peale’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth DePeyster Peale is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale died in 1804, in Philadelphia, PA. Elizabeth DePeyster Peale was a New York merchant’s daughter who became Charles Willson Peale’s second wife in June 1791. She cared for six surviving children from his first marriage and bore six more, including Franklin and Titian Ramsay Peale. Her husband’s 1798 portrait shows her wearing his miniature likeness, linking family life with its artistic work. She died in 1804, while the Peale household sustained his Philadelphia museum. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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