Peto, John Frederick

Peto, John Frederick

▪ American painter
born May 21, 1854, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.
died Nov. 23, 1907, Island Heights, N.J.

      American still-life painter who, though influenced by the style and subject matter of the better-known trompe l'oeil (“fool-the-eye”) still-life painter William Harnett (Harnett, William), developed a distinctive mode of expression.

      Biographical information on Peto is meagre, and few of his works were signed or dated. He may have been a student at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. From 1879 to 1886 he contributed irregularly to academy exhibitions. He knew Harnett, and possibly they were close friends. Peto and Harnett painted many of the same subjects—money, books, violins, and guns. A favourite subject of both, but particularly of Peto, was the letter rack in which a group of tapes tacked to a vertical surface held letters and other objects. Such pictures were done both early and late in Peto's career, the late ones, such as “Old Reminiscences,” being stronger in abstract composition. Characteristically, Peto chose common, everyday objects as his subjects.

      From 1875 to 1889 Peto worked in Philadelphia and, from 1889 to his death, in the village of Island Heights. Most of his works date from the second period. Because he was unknown and away from the world of art, his works were often represented as Harnett's. His works differ from Harnett's, however, in their softer, more luminous colour and gentler, almost poetic atmosphere.

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