Charles Rollo Peters
{{short description|American painter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Charles Rollo Peters
| birth_date = April 10, 1862
| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| death_date = March 2, 1928
| death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| nationality =
| other_names = Charles Rollo Peters, Jr.
| education = Académie Julian
École des Beaux-Arts
| occupation = Painter
| spouses = Kathleen "Kitty" Frances Murphy Peters, Constance Mabel Easley
}}
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Charles Rollo Peters (April 10, 1862 – March 2, 1928) was an American oil painter of nocturnes.
Early life
Peters was born on April 10, 1862, in San Francisco, California.{{cite news |title=Peters, Noted California Artist, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457974003/?terms=%22Charles%2BRollo%2BPeters%22 |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |date=March 2, 1928|page=9|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}{{cite news |title=California Artist Gets Death Call. Charles Rollo Peters of Bay City Expires After Month of Illness |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380630586/?terms=%22Charles%2BRollo%2BPeters%22 |accessdate=April 17, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 2, 1928|page=2|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }} He studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France;{{cite web |title=Charles Rollo Peters |url=https://lagunaartmuseum.org/artist/charles-rollo-peter/ |website=Laguna Art Museum |accessdate=April 17, 2019}} where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Gustave Boulanger, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.{{Cite book|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00139636|title=Peters, Charles Rollo|date=2011-10-31|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Benezit Dictionary of Artists|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00139636}}
Career and life
In the mid-1890s, Peters opened a studio in Monterey, California, where he became an oil painter of nocturnes scenes of the Carmel Mission, adobes, cypress trees, and the coast. He was a member of the Bohemian Club. According to the San Francisco Examiner, he became "one of the world's greatest artists." For the Los Angeles Times, he was "known internationally for his nocturne studies of Californian and European subjects."
Peters married his first wife, Kathleen "Kitty" Frances Murphy, in 1891. In 1900, he bought {{convert|30|acre||adj=pre|}} of land near Monterey, where he built a home and studio, called "Peters Gate," designed by architect Willis Polk.{{cite book|last=Dramov|first=Alissandra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtRzAgAAQBAJ|title=Carmel-by-the-Sea, The Early Years|work=AuthorHouse|place=Blomington, Indiana|date=2012|pages=42–43|isbn=9781491824146|access-date=2023-03-03}} The couple had four children: Charles Rollo Peters III (born in Paris, France, September 25, 1892), Warren (born about 1896), and twins DeWitt Clinton and Kathleen Mary (born in Monterey February 18, 1902). After giving birth to the twins, Mrs. Peters died on March 16, 1902. Her two-year-old daughter caught fire inside the Peters home in Monterey and died December 9, 1904.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
Later, Peters resided in Monterey with his second wife, {{Interlanguage link|Constance Mabel Easley|qid=Q108099722}},{{Cite web|date=2011-09-25|title=Art in the Adobes reveals Hidden Treasures|url=https://www.montereyherald.com/general-news/20110925/art-in-the-adobes-reveals-hidden-treasures|access-date=2021-08-14|website=Monterey Herald|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last=Shields|first=Scott A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rs-IDwAAQBAJ|title=Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907|date=2006-04-17|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24739-0|pages=80|language=en}} who was a painter.
His son, {{Interlanguage link|Dewitt Clinton Peters|qid=Q97583119}} also became a painter. His son, Charles Rollo Peter (commonly known as Rollo Peters), became an actor, theatre director, and scenic designer.{{Cite news|date=1967-01-22|title=ROLLO PETERS, 74, ACTOR-DIRECTOR; Co-Founder of Theater Guild Dies--Also Designed Sets|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/01/22/archives/rollo-peters-74-actordirector-cofounder-of-theater-guild-diesalso.html|access-date=2021-08-14|issn=0362-4331}}
File:Charles Rollo Peters (1862-1928) Round Lane, Dorset.jpg
Death
Peters died on March 2, 1928, in San Francisco, at age 66. His work is in the permanent collection of the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California.
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Category:Painters from San Francisco
Category:People from Monterey, California
Category:Académie Julian alumni
Category:American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts
Category:American male painters
Category:19th-century American painters
Category:19th-century American male artists