Rosa Peckham Danielson

Rosa (Rose) Frances Peckham Danielson, born October 28, 1842, in Killingly, Connecticut, was a nineteenth-century portrait and landscape artist.

[1][2] She was a founder of the Providence Art Club, where she was also the first female board member, serving as secretary and then as vice president.

[1] More recently, in 2017, her paintings Girl Picking Flower, Breton Headdress, Portrait of Woman, [Schooners at Port], and Portrait of Katherine Peckham were displayed at the Providence Art Club's exhibition "Making Her Mark.

[2] She began her formal art training in 1868 with William Rimmer at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York, prior to which she “studied drawing locally.”[1][2] Afterwards, Peckham traveled to Paris, where she furthered her art education.

[3] She shared a room with her sister Katherine Peckham and her friend Abigail May Alcott Nieriker.

[1] In I882, Peckham displayed her paintings, La Bresilienne and Brazilian Schoolgirl, at the Third Annual Exhibition of the Providence Art Club.

[8] May Alcott's mother says of the portrait: "Miss Peckham has caught May’s air and post most successfully, and her ‘suaviter in mode’ of tone;  -- years ago when her eyes were bright, and her heart was light, and she thought of Love and glory.

The tone of high coloring is more the fashion than it has been, everything is more intense; Life itself is short and swift, music is loud and strong, more sound than harmony.

The picture is May and nobody else, but the hat is Madame Williams’ `Salon Chapeau.’ May's own pretty hair, with her blue velvet snood, would have suited my taste better but Paris is all crimson and gilt, nude or dressed for exhibition.

(1891), Infanta Margarita, Portrait of Katherine Peckham (1892, Bowstead Collection), Portrait of Edith and Grace Baldwin, (early 1890s, Whipple Collection, Putnam, CT), Study of a Girl (Grace Baldwin?