Important Baltimore artist. Vert large portrait of a little girl in nice gold frame. 44 x 34 in., 50 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (framed). Oil on canvas.He was born at the army hospital in Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, MD in 1865. Peters studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, France, with Lefebvre and Boulanger from 1886 to 1888; at the Ecole des Beaux Arts with Gerome, and with Collin. At the age of 23 he was awarded a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, where his older friend and mentor, John Singer Sargent took the gold. He also exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1888, 1889, and 1891. He exhibited at the Societe des Beaux-Arts from 1894 to 1896, the National Academy of Design in 1899, and the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. Peters lived and worked in Paris, Baltimore, New York and Connecticut, and was a prominent and talented portrait painter. His work is at City Hall and the Boy's School in Baltimore, at Yale, Harvard and Rutgers Universities, and the Historical Society and High School of Albany, New York. He was one of the first "Profiles" subjects in the New Yorker magazine. Peters illustrations appeared in Tutti Fruitti; Children of the Week; Madame Daulnoy's Fairy Stories; St. Nicholas; Harper's, Young People, Wide Awake, and New York Life.Sources include:Falk, Peter (Ed.) Who Was Who in American ArtAdditional information supplied in April of 2006 by his great-grandson Paul Gioni

Good condition, backed with plexi glass