Peter
Egeli, The Artist | Commissions
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Peter was born in 1934 to a family of successful artists.
In his teens, he studied painting at the Corcoran Art School
in Washington, D.C. and after a three year tour of duty
in the Marine Corps, enrolled at the Maryland Institute
of Art in Baltimore, where his principal instructor was
Jacques Maroger. Upon graduating, he attended the Art Students
League in New York and later George Washington University
in Washington, DC. From 1960 to 1967 he taught drawing and
painting at St. Mary's College of Maryland. He is a Charter
member, former President and Fellow of the American
Society of Marine Artists.
Since 1967, he has devoted full time to his career as a
portrait and marine artist. Peter resides with his wife
on a small waterfront farm in Southern Maryland.
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