[4] In 1863 when he was young, the family moved to San Francisco, California via ship around the Isthmus of Panama.

[4][5] After his education, he purchased the "White House" on Tite Street in Chelsea district of London, England, United Kingdom; the former home of James McNeill Whistler.

[1][2] At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Peck won a gold metal for a painting.

[3] After the death of architect Newton J. Tharp in 1909, many of the San Francisco painters came together under the leadership of Charles J. Dickson to hold an exhibition in his honor at the California Club in San Francisco, including Peck, Maynard Dixon, Arthur F. Matthews, Xavier Martínez, Giuseppe Cadenasso, Eugen Neuhaus, Ernest Peixotto, Will Sparks, Gordon Coutts, Ferdinand Burgdorff, Francis McComas, and Theodore Wores.

[8] He died after a heart issue on January 20, 1921, while visiting a friend in Los Angeles, California.