Charles Rollo Peters

Charles Rollo Peters II (April 10, 1862 – March 2, 1928) was an American oil painter of nocturnes. He was the father of actor and designer Rollo Peters and watercolorist De Witt Peters.

Early life Peters was born on April 10, 1862, in San Francisco, California. He studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France; where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Gustave Boulanger, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

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. 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.

Later, Peters resided in Monterey with his second wife, , who was a painter.

His son, also became a painter. Round Lane, Dorset, painted prior to 1916, oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 55 in.

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.