An English Breakfast

c. 1890s

John Frederick Peto

Painter, American, 1854 - 1907

John Frederick Peto

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 69-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on academy board

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 14.8 x 22 cm (5 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
    framed: 25.72 x 33.02 x 2.22 cm (10 1/8 x 13 x 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.79.30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); purchased December 1965 by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 1983, no. 224, repro.

2013

  • Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, The Art Institute of Chicago; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, 2013-2014, no. 56, fig. 14.

Wikidata ID

Q20190118

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