[1] In 1840, he traveled to New York City to continue his artistic training and enrolled in the National Academy of Design's antique class.

[2] Peele remained in New York City for approximately eighteenth months and then settled in Albany, where he worked as a portrait painter for two years.

During this period, his work was also featured in exhibitions held at the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham and the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

[6] Although the artist kept a studio in London throughout the second half of his career, he spent extended periods in Liverpool, Douglas (Isle of Man), and Bexley Heath, Kent, where he maintained a second home after 1865.

[8] Prominent figures such as Prince Albert and the American landscape painter Frederick Edwin Church purchased several of his paintings and the dealers Messrs. Graves & Co. published engravings after his compositions.