John Thomas Peele, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Thomas Peele

British painter

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1822

Place of Birth: Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-May-1897

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About John Thomas Peele

  • John Thomas Peele (1822-1897) was a British painter specializing in portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. Born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, Peele immigrated to America with his parents in about 1834.
  • The family settled in Buffalo, New York, where Peele began painting.
  • In 1840, he traveled to New York City to continue his artistic training and enrolled in the National Academy of Design's antique class.
  • Peele remained in New York City for approximately eighteenth months and then settled in Albany, where he worked as a portrait painter for two years.
  • From 1841 to 1844, Peele was in London attempting to launch a career as a society portraitist, but he failed to win substantial patronage.
  • He returned to New York by 1845 and switched his focus to ideal genre subjects featuring children.
  • The artist achieved some popularity with his sentimental compositions, eventually becoming a member of the National Academy of Design.
  • In approximately 1851, he relocated to London.
  • From 1852 to 1891, he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Society of British Artists, to which he was elected in 1872.
  • During this period, his work was also featured in exhibitions held at the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham and the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
  • Although the artist kept a studio in London throughout the second half of his career, he spent extended periods in Liverpool, Douglas (Isle of Man), and Bexley Heath, Kent, where he maintained a second home after 1865.
  • His career flourished during the last decades of his life.
  • Prominent figures such as Prince Albert and the American landscape painter Frederick Edwin Church purchased several of his paintings and the dealers Messrs.
  • Graves & Co.
  • published engravings after his compositions.

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