Portrait of Helen Miller (Mrs. Charles G. McLean)  1806

Gallery label: [br]The sitter is posed in a romantic setting wearing fashionable attire, but Peale did not soften her intense gaze or prominent nose. Helen and her husband founded McLean Seminary, a girls' school in Indianapolis. Peale was a member of a Philadelphia family of prominent American painters. Indianapolis Museum of Art Gift of Fifteen Pupils of McLean Semi...