Peart was born at Newton, a rural parish located immediately north-east of Monmouth[1] By 1778 he was in London, where he entered the Royal Academy School in 1781 and won a medal the following year for a bas-relief of Hercules and Omphale.
[2] After leaving the school, he worked as an assistant to John Charles Lochee and then as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood, and was commissioned by the Marquess of Buckingham to carve a series of reliefs for his country house at Stowe.
These included memorials to Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell in St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai; and another, at Fort St George, to Colonel Joseph Moorhouse who was killed at the Siege of Bangalore in 1791.
[3] In 1792, Peart provided a statue of Henry V above the entrance to the Shire Hall in the king's birthplace of Monmouth.
Peart continued to work for Wedgwood, and also carved a marble chimneypiece for the Marquess of Buckingham's London residence in Pall Mall He died in 1798, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, and a young child.