John Frederick Peto ART FOR SALE

Portrait of John Frederick Peto: Self Portrait with Rack Picture, 1904

1854 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1907 Island Heights, New Jersey. Known for: Trompe still life, marine and portrait painting.

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John Peto was born on March 17, 1854 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a dealer in picture frames and later of fire department supplies. Little is known of his early artistic training except that he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1877 and during the next half dozen years he contributed works to its annual exhibitions. While as the Academy he was influenced by classmate William Harnett, "trompe l'oeil" painter. In contrast to Harnett, he painted commonplace subjects that were in disorder and ramschackled. From 1879 to 1889 Peto tried to live the life of a professional artist by maintaining a studio in Philadelphia. However he was not very successful because he often painted objects that were perceived as ugly... Read full biography

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Still Life of Umbrella, Carpetbag and Hat

Type:Painting

Year:circa 1900

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

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The artist, Helen Serrill Peto Smiley, Island Heights, New Jersey, daughter of the artist Private collection, Flat Rock, North Carolina, by descent from above Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut Max N. Berry, New York