John F. Peto Prints
1854–1907 · American · Realism
Wall art by John F. Peto, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
8 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About John F. Peto
John Frederick Peto was born in Philadelphia in May 1854, studied briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy, and became a friend and follower of William Harnett, painting the same pipes, books, mugs and letter racks but in a softer, more melancholy manner, with worn, torn and faded objects in a dusty light. He never found Harnett's market; in 1889 he moved to Island Heights on the New Jersey shore, played cornet at Methodist camp meetings, and painted for local buyers and for himself. After his death in New York in November 1907 dealers forged Harnett's signature on many of his pictures, and it took until 1949 for the scholar Alfred Frankenstein to separate the two. His battered tin cups, old violins and letter racks print as quiet, tender still lifes for a study, kitchen or hallway.