Artwork Title: Breakfast

Breakfast

John Peto

circa 1890s Falsely signed, lower right, "WMH" in monogram: WMHARNETT [https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.110275.html] Peto was almost completely forgotten until 1949, when Alfred Frankenstein published an article in which he identified 19 paintings from major private collections and museums that had been attributed to Harnett but had really been painted by Peto. With the advent of further interest and research on American still life painting, Peto gradually emerged as a distinct artistic personality whose work could be differentiated from Harnett's by its looser brushwork, warm tonality, and aura of subtle melancholy created by his tendency to represent objects deteriorated by age. [https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1780.html#biography]
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