Charles Ernest Peers

Peers spent his youth in Liverpool, England, where he recorded the shipping activity on the Mersey.

He won the Cape Times poster competition in 1924, and became a member of the South African Institute of Art in 1926.

Peers made a living as a chromo-lithographer with various printing companies, including Galvin & Sales in Cape Town.

He illustrated The Seven Wonders of South Africa by Hedley Chilvers and The Coast of Hermanus by Will Costello.

Peers worked mainly in watercolor, but also produced oils and pastels as well as pencil drawings, etchings, linocuts, and lithographs.