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Elizabeth De Peyster

The New Netherland Ancestors of

ELIZABETH DE PEYSTER,

the first wife of

CHARLES WILLSON PEALE



- for Charles Willson Peale

Painter




		      __Johannes De Peyster2,4
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		 __Johannes De Peyster2,5,12
		|    |
		|    |__Cornelia Lubberts vander Elburch2,4
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	    __William De Peyster3,6,12
	   |    |
	   |    |     __Gerrit Bancker1,5,12
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Anne Bancker2,5,12
	   |         |
	   |         |     __Dirck Van Eps1
	   |         |    |
	   |         |__Elizabeth Dirckse Van Eps1,5,12
	   |              |
	   |              |__Maritie Damens1
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       __William De Peyster3,7,13
      |    |
      |    |               __Claes Martenszen Van Rosenvelt9,22
      |    |              |
      |    |          __Nicholas Roosevelt10,22
      |    |         |    |
      |    |         |    |__Jannetje Tomas9,22
      |    |         |
      |    |     __Johannes Roosevelt6,11
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |     __Jan Barentszen Kunst22
      |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |__Heyltje Jans Kunst10,22
      |    |    |         |
      |    |    |         |     __Adriaen Pieterszen Van Alcmaer22,23
      |    |    |         |    |
      |    |    |         |__Jannetje Adriaens22,23
      |    |    |              |
      |    |    |              |     __Jan Janszen [Van Breestede]23
      |    |    |              |    |
      |    |    |              |__Elsje Janse Van Breestede22,23
      |    |    |                   |
      |    |    |                   |__Engeltje Jans23
      |    |    |
      |    |__Margareta Roosevelt6,12
      |         |
      |         |          __Sjoert Olfertszen18
      |         |         |
      |         |     __Olfert Sjoertszen11,18,19
      |         |    |    |
      |         |    |    |__Ytie Roelofs18
      |         |    |
      |         |__Heyltje Sjoerts6,11,18
      |              |
      |              |     __Cornelis Janszen Clopper11,19
      |              |    |
      |              |__Margaret Clopper11,18,19
      |                   |
      |                   |__Heyltje Pieters19
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ELIZABETH DE PEYSTER8,12
the first wife of CHARLES WILLSON PEALE
      |
      |               __Henry Brasier14,15
      |              |
      |          __Abraham Brasier14,15
      |         |    |
      |         |    |     __Thomas Spicer14
      |         |    |    |
      |         |    |__Susanna Spicer14,15
      |         |         |
      |         |         |__Michall (__)14
      |         |
      |     __Abraham Brasier7,15
      |    |    |
      |    |    |     __Jan Lucaszen Schouten15
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Elizabeth Schouten14,15
      |    |         |
      |    |         |__Saertje Jans15
      |    |
      |__Elizabeth Brasier7,13
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	   |          __Jean Dally16,20,21
	   |         |
	   |     __Phillipus Dally16,20,21
	   |    |    |
	   |    |    |     __Hendrick Hendrickszen Obee20
	   |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |__Elizabeth Obee16,20
	   |    |         |
	   |    |         |__Aeltje Claes20
	   |    |
	   |__Elizabeth Dally7,21
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		|     __Johannes Van Gelder16,21
		|    |
		|__Cornelia Van Gelder16,21
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		     |__Tanneken Montaeken16



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Biography of CHARLES WILLSON PEALE

 
PEALE, Charles Willson, artist, born in Chestertown, Maryland, 16 April 1741; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22 February 1827. He followed for some time the trade of a saddler in Annapolis, but, having seen a portrait while visiting Norfolk, Virginia, he determined to attempt art, and on his return he executed a likeness of himself. His success induced him to change his vocation from saddle-making to portrait-painting. He lived in Boston in 1768-69, where he had some instruction from John Singleton Copley, and in 1770 he went to London, England, bearing letters to Benjamin West, who received him kindly, and whose pupil he became. In London, Peale also studied modelling in wax, casting and moulding in plaster, engraving in mezzotinto, and miniature-painting. He returned to Annapolis in 1774, began painting portraits, and two years later established himself in Philadelphia. Later he became a captain of volunteers, and was present at the battles of Trenton and Germantown. He also began to take an active interest in political affairs, and was a member of the legislature in 1779. Afterward he turned his attention to natural history. A mammoth that had been disinterred for him in Ulster county, New York, in 1801, led his mind into this new channel, and the idea of forming a museum occurred to him. He forthwith became a collector of all manner of natural curiosities, and with these, and a large number of portraits, opened, in 1802, "Peale's Museum" to the public. He gave lectures on natural history, and occupied himself also with dentistry. In 1791, and again in 1794, he made earnest but ineffectual endeavors to form an art academy in Philadelphia, and he lived to assist in establishing the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts and to contribute to seventeen of its annual exhibitions. Peale is notable rather for versatility than for real genius in any direction. He took up, in turn, the making of coaches, harnesses, clocks, and watches, besides working as a silversmith, and he was also soldier, politician, naturalist, taxidermist, and dentist. It is said of him that he "sawed his own ivory for his miniatures, moulded the glasses, and made the shagreen cases." In the course of his various studies he became an author also, his writings including an essay on "Building Wooden Bridges" (1797); " Discourse Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Natural History..." (Philadelphia, 1800); "Epistle on the Means of Preserving Health" (Philadelphia, 1808); and "Domestic Happiness" (1816). But his fame rests mainly on his achievements as a portrait-painter, and is due in a great measure to the circumstance of his having been enabled to associate his name with that of Washington, who gave him, it is asserted, no less than fourteen sittings. He executed in 1772 his first portrait of Washington, who was then a Virginia colonel, and after that painted him repeatedly during the Revolutionary war, and afterward several of these portraits he engraved. He was at one time the only portrait-painter in the colonies, and his services were much in demand. Among his portraits, many of which have been engraved, are those of George and Martha Washington, John Hancock, Robert Morris, Nathanael Greene, Horatio Gates, Benjamin Lincoln, Baron Steuben, Count Rochambeau, Baron DeKalb, Benjamin Franklin, Peyton Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Carroll, Lord Stirling, Bishop White, Albert Gallatin, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Count Volney, Timothy Pickering, John Witherspoon, and Alexander Hamilton. Those of James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, and Henry Clay were painted in the winter of 1818-19. The New York historical society owns four portraits by him--Washington, Hamilton, John B. Bordley, and Pieter Johan Van Berekel. His "Christ Healing the Sick at the Pool of Bethesda" was painted in his eighty-first year, and his last work was a full-length portrait of himself at the age of eighty-three. It is now in the Philadelphia academy. See Elizabeth B. Johnston's "Original Portraits of Washington" (Boston, 1882)" William Dunlap's "History of the Arts of Design in the United States" (New York, 1834); and Scharf's "History of Philadelphia" (Philadelphia, 1884).
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Banker, Howard James, Bancker or Banker Families of America.  Rutland:
       The Tuttle Company, 1909.  239-243.
   2.  Ibid., p. 297.
   3.  Ibid., p. 304.
   4.  Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr.  The De Peyster Genealogy.  Boston:
       privately printed, 1956.  1-4.
   5.  Ibid., p. 14-16.
   6.  Ibid., p. 43-44.
   7.  Ibid., p. 66-68.
   8.  Ibid., p. 90.
   9.  Whittelsey, Charles Barney.  The Roosevelt Genealogy 1649-1902.
       Hartford: J.B. Burr & Co., 1902.  3-4.
  10.  Ibid., p. 6-7.
  11.  Ibid., p. 10-12.
  12.  Ibid., p. 19-20.
  13.  Ibid., p. 35.
  14.  Hoffman, William J., "The Founders of the Bras(s), Brasser, Bresser,
       Bries and Brazier Families in America,"  The American Genealogist, 20
       (1944):  140-148, 215-223; 21 (1945):  147-158.
  15.  Young, Eunice H., and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, "Jan Lucaszen Schouten and His
       Descendants Through Three Generations," The New York Genealogical and
       Biographical Record, 115 (1984):  180-181. 215-219.
  16.  Van Gelder, Arthur Pine, "Van Gelder Families in America," The New York
       Genealogical and Biographical Record, 75 (1944):  15-24, 49-59, 108-120,
       169-181.
  17.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  1295.
  18.  Ibid., p. 1081
  19.  Ibid., p. 276.
  20.  Ibid., p. 1075.
  21.  Ibid., p. 376.
  22.  Beard, Timothy Field, F.A.S.G., and Henry B. Hoff, F.A.S.G., "The
       Roosevelt Family," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       118 (1987):  193-201; 119 (1988):  19-34.
  23.  Purple, Edwin R. "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families
       of New York."  The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7
       (1876): 117-124.

 

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