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Morton K. Peto

Flourished 1881 to 1884

A painter of landscapes and European scenes, Morton Kelsall Peto lived and worked in the parish of Pinner, a suburb of London. He painted at Eastcote House, Pinner which was his father's home. When he got married he left Eastcote House and seems to have ceased painting. He exhibited a painting at the Royal Academy entitled "A half holiday at the Dutch shippers". His brother Harold Ainsworth Peto was an architect in Pinner, and by an amazing coincidence Harold was the architect for the London offices of victorian-paintings.com which were constructed in 1878. Eastcote House was also the home of Morton's father Sir Samuel Morton Peto who was made a Baronet at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, and who was one of the leading civil engineers in the Victorian era. In addition to being a Member of Parliament for Norwich, Sir Samuel was the builder of the famous Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. Eastcote House was demolished in the 1960's.