Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers
(1786-1859)
BIRTH
1786
PLACE
Philadelphia
NAME
Sophonisba Angusciola Peale
DEATH
1859
PLACE
Upper Darby Township
FAMILY
MOTHER
Rachel Brewer Peale
(1747-1790)
SISTER
Eleanor Peale
(1770–1773)
SISTER
Margaret Bordley Peale
(1772-1772)
BROTHER
Raphaelle Peale
(1774-1825)
BROTHER
Rembrandt Peale
(1778-1860)
BROTHER
Rubens Peale
(1784-1865)
BROTHER
Charles Linnaeus Peale
(1794-1832)
CHILDREN
Charles Willson Peale
(1741-1827)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers (1786–1859) was a Philadelphia artist and natural-history worker, daughter of Charles Willson Peale and Rachel Brewer. At seventeen she collected and preserved birds with her father and prepared museum labels in Latin, English and French. She married engineer Coleman Sellers in 1805 and later cared for children and grandchildren. Letters reveal her artistic interests; a Star of Bethlehem quilt from about 1850 survives in Philadelphia.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers’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 Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers 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
Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers died in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, on October 26, 1859, aged seventy-three. Her later life followed years of artistic and domestic work, while her earlier museum activities had included collecting and labeling natural-history specimens with her father, Charles Willson Peale. She was first buried in the family plot at New Jerusalem Burial Ground in Upper Darby, and her remains were later moved to West Laurel Hill Cemetery. These records establish the end of her life and subsequent burial history, but the consulted biography does not identify the cause of death or describe a final illness. Her presence in Philadelphia during the yellow-fever outbreak of 1803 concerns an earlier period and is not evidence that she died from fever in 1859. No dependable clinical sequence, treatment history, or final words have been established here.
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