biographie de Sheldon PECK (1797-1869)

Birth place: Cornwall, VT

Addresses: Vermont (until 1828); Jordan, NY (1828-45); Babcock"s Grove, Lombard, IL (1845-on)

Profession: Portrait painter

Studied: self-taught

Work: Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst.

Comments: An itinerant portrait painter, he primarily painted half-length portraits in subdued colors. After 1845, his palette brightened and he created his own trompe l"úil frames. He was also a farmer and school teaccher.

Sources: G&W; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 119; G&W identified him as a painter of a pair of portraits on wood of Mr. and Mrs. Alanson Peck of Cornwall, VT, 1824)); WPA (Mass.), Portraits Found in Vermont.