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The facade of the brick Peale building on a sunny day.
Architecture
Heather Shelton

The Peale Wins a Buildy Award!

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) has announced The Peale as one of this year’s Building Museums™ Symposium’s Buildy Award Winners. The Buildy Award recognizes The Peale for its leadership and exemplary accomplishment through the planning,

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A replica portrait of Sarah Miriam Peale in a gold frame. Sarah has brown hair, tied up in curls on two sides of her head.
Artists
Heather Shelton

Sarah Miriam Peale Studio at The Peale

Hidden Herstory! Did you know that this woman, Sarah Miriam Peale (1800-1885), had a studio inside the Peale building? Sarah, who was affectionately called “Sally” by her family, began coming to Baltimore to study with

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A silhouette of a man with a cravat and a long braid in the back.
Artists
Heather Shelton

Moses Williams: A History

Moses Williams was an accomplished silhouette artist and entrepreneur born to an enslaved couple who were traded to Charles Willson Peale, Rembandt’s father, in payment for a pair of portraits he had painted while living

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