Frank Charles Peyraud

Frank Charles Peyraud (1 June 1858, Bulle, Switzerland - 1 May 1948, Highland Park, Illinois)[1] was an American landscape painter of French-Swiss origin.

He began his preliminary studies for architecture at the Collège Saint-Michel, and completed them, rather perfunctorily, at the Polytechnikum in Zürich.

In 1881, at the age of twenty-two, for reasons unknown, he went to the United States with his brother Paul and decided that Chicago would be a good place for an architect.

He was, however, initially employed as a cyclorama painter, having been rejected by the architectural firm of William Le Baron Jenney, apparently due to inadequate English language skills.

[3] In 1891, he became involved in retouching a famous panorama by Paul Philippoteaux depicting the "Battle of Gettysburg", when it was being prepared for an exhibit in Chicago.