Lights of Other Days
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
77.5 × 4514 cm (30 1/2 × 45 1/4 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
2156
About the Artist
John Frederick Peto · 1854–1907
John Frederick Peto, born on May 21, 1854, in Philadelphia to picture-frame gilder Thomas Hope Peto and Catherine Marion Ham, grew up as the eldest of five children, primarily raised by his maternal grandparents and aunts. Largely self-taught, he briefly studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1877, where he first exhibited and befriended fellow trompe-l'œil artist William M. Harne...