# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sophonisba-angusciola-peale-sellers
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:08:29.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sophonisba-angusciola-peale-sellers"
name: "Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers"
slug: "sophonisba-angusciola-peale-sellers"
description: "Sophonisba Angusciola (Peale) Sellers, known by the nickname \"Sopy,\" was an early American ornithologist and artist. She was also a noted quilt-maker and a surviving example of her work is preserved in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is recognized as the first woman in America to collect and prepare bird specimens for scientific study."
tagline: "American painter, quiltmaker and ornithologist (1786-1859)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Image_from_page_18_of_%22Bulletin_-_United_States_National_Museum%22_(1877).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1786"
deathDate: "1859"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.272498666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophonisba_Angusciola_Peale"
    title: "Sophonisba Angusciola Peale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophonisba_Angusciola_Peale"
    title: "Sophonisba Angusciola Peale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophonisba_Angusciola_Peale"
    title: "Sophonisba Angusciola Peale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78162547"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations