Rosalba Carriera Peale

Rosalba Carriera Peale (28 July 1799 – November 15, 1874)[1] was an American portraitist, landscape painter, and lithographer.

Rosa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1799 and was named after Rosalba Carriera, a Venetian Rococo artist who specialized in portrait miniatures and pastel.

[3] After her mother's death in 1836, her father remarried to one of his art students, Harriet Cany, who continued to paint after their marriage in 1840.

[9] In 1873, she presented her father's painting, Washington before Yorktown, which was valued at $10,000 (equivalent to $254,333 today), to the Mount Holly Association of New Jersey.

[10] Reportedly, she had many suitors, but refused to wed "the everyday man," instead choosing to wait until October 1860, when she was sixty-two years old, to marry widower John Allen Underwood (1798–1869).