Editorial Journal of John Cooper on Oscar Wilde
Various Likenesses of William Theodore Peters
Including a Discovered Sketch
The young and ill-fated American poet William Theodore Peters was integral to the clique of 1890s British decadents. One fact upholding this claim is that even the doyen of the movement, Oscar Wilde, had a portrait of him hanging in his Tite Street drawing room.
But which portrait of Peters was it?
Continue reading “Peters Portraits”William Theodore Peters—remember him?
He is the American poet and actor with recent claims on this blog to be the ultimate decadent of the 1890s.
Peters’s decadent persona is supported by a photograph featured in that article which was thought to be the only one of him known to exist. However, I concluded by hinting at the existence of two other images of Peters that have recently come to my attention.
The first of these is the photograph below of Peters in Pierrot costume.
Continue reading “The Pierrot of the Minute”