Charles Rollo Peters

[1][2] He studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France;[3] where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Gustave Boulanger, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

[4] 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.

In 1900, he bought 30 acres (12 ha) of land near Monterey, where he built a home and studio, called "Peters Gate," designed by architect Willis Polk.

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, Constance Mabel Easley [Wikidata],[6][2][7] who was a painter.