Harriet Christina Cany Peale (1799 – 12 January 1869) was an American landscape, portrait, and genre painter of the mid-nineteenth century.

Although sometimes described as a copyist, a greater share of her oeuvre has been made public in recent years, allowing Cany Peale to earn recognition for her genre and landscape paintings.

Cany Peale depicts the "mistress" as an ideal, serene, light-skinned figure clasping the neck of the African American servant, whose features appear cruder in contrast.

Together, they peer into a mirror to examine the effect of the clothes (relics of an earlier generation) and jewelry on the servant.

[5][6] Her landscape, Kaaterskill Clove (also in a private collection), was the key landscape image of the 2010 traveling exhibition, "Remember the Ladies: Women Artists of the Hudson River School,"[7] organized by the Thomas Cole Historic Site.