Pearl Jeanette Van Sciver, née Aiman (1896 – October 10, 1966), was a Philadelphia based artist, mostly of oil paintings of landscapes and floral still lifes often inspired by flowers from her own garden and greenhouse.
Pearl was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, in 1896, the only child of parents Arnold Aiman and Emma G. Rorer.
Her father was a roofer and her mother had inherited property and money from her wealthy and heirless uncle, Clinton Rorer.
Sometime before Pearl turned 4 years old, her parents moved just outside the city to Wyndmoor, in Springfield Township, Montgomery County.
Some of her landscapes or street scenes of are local areas around Philadelphia such as New Hope and Lancaster, while others are of some of the many places she traveled to, such as Rothenburg, Germany, Gloucester, England or Kennebunkport, Maine.