Oil on Canvas
51 x 64 cm

Peter Brown’s 7 pm, Waterloo Place, showing a scene from Edinburgh, with the Walter Scott monument in the background.

Provenance:
Purchased from Messums in 2014.

Peter Brown (born 28 July 1967) is a British Impressionist painter popularly known as “Pete the Street” from his practice of working on location in all weathers. He is best known for his depictions of street scenes and landscapes. He insists on working directly from the subject refusing to use photographic reference. Brown was born in Reading and educated at Presentation College, Reading. He graduated in fine art from Manchester Polytechnic in 1990. He moved to Bath in 1993, where he lives with his wife Lisa and five children, and took up painting full-time in 1995. He developed a vigorous en plein air style, and happily interacts with passers-by while at work. Brown was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1998, and became its President in 2018, being succeeded at the end of his five-year tenure by Patrick Cullen. Brown is also a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Pastel Society and is an honorary member of the Royal Society of British Artists. In 2006, he became the first Artist-in-Residence at the Savoy Hotel, London. In 2008, he won the Prince of Wales Award for Portrait Drawing. In 2023, Brown worked with Banksy to paint the aftermath of his street piece “Valentine’s Day Mascara” in Margate. The series of paintings was featured in Banksy’s solo show “Cut & Run” in Glasgow.