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Sheldon Peck BIOGRAPHY
1797 Cornwall, Vermont - 1868 Lombard, IL. Known for: Naive portrait often group and landscape painting.
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in Vermont, were brushed onto wood panels, and he used somber colors, dark backgrounds, and detailed clothing. In 1828, he moved to a farm in Jordan, Onandaga County, New York and then began to paint with... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in Vermont, were brushed onto wood panels, and he used somber colors, dark backgrounds, and detailed clothing. In 1828, he moved to a farm in Jordan, Onandaga County, New York and then began to paint with brighter colors. He continued to paint half and three-quarter length portraits on wood panels and added highly detailed settings and an occasional landscape in the background. In 1837, he moved to Babcock's Grove, (Lombard by 1868), near Chicago,... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in Vermont, were brushed onto wood panels, and he used somber colors, dark backgrounds, and detailed clothing. In 1828, he moved to a farm in Jordan, Onandaga County, New York and then began to paint with brighter colors. He continued to paint half and three-quarter length portraits on wood panels and added highly detailed settings and an occasional landscape in the background. In 1837, he moved to Babcock's Grove, (Lombard by 1868), near Chicago, Illinois, and became a farmer and community leader who opened a school for his own and other children.... Read full biography
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Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in Vermont, were brushed onto wood panels, and he used somber colors, dark backgrounds, and detailed clothing.
In 1828, he moved to a farm in Jordan, Onandaga County, New York and then began to paint with brighter colors. He continued to paint half and three-quarter length portraits on wood panels and added highly detailed settings and an occasional landscape in the background.
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