Rachel Brewer Peale
(1747-1790)
BIRTH
1747
PLACE
NAME
Rachel Brewer
DEATH
1790
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Rubens Peale
(1784-1865)
HUSBAND
Charles Willson Peale
(1741-1827)
CHILDREN
Eleanor Peale
(1770–1773)
CHILDREN
Margaret Bordley Peale
(1772-1772)
CHILDREN
Raphaelle Peale
(1774-1825)
CHILDREN
Angelica Kauffmann Peale Robinson
(1775-1853)
CHILDREN
Rembrandt Peale
(1778-1860)
CHILDREN
Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers
(1786-1859)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Rachel Brewer Peale was Charles Willson Peale’s first wife and the mother of artists Raphaelle, Rembrandt and Rubens Peale. She married him in Maryland in 1762, connecting him to Anne Arundel County’s planters and merchants. Her likeness appears in his family portraits, including a miniature with their daughter Eleanor painted after Rachel’s death in 1790. Museum records differ on whether she was born in 1744 or 1747.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Rachel Brewer 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 Rachel Brewer 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
Rachel Brewer Peale died in 1790. Rachel Brewer Peale was Charles Willson Peale’s first wife and the mother of artists Raphaelle, Rembrandt and Rubens Peale. She married him in Maryland in 1762, connecting him to Anne Arundel County’s planters and merchants. Her likeness appears in his family portraits, including a miniature with their daughter Eleanor painted after Rachel’s death in 1790. Museum records differ on whether she was born in 1744 or 1747. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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