Family Card - Person Sheet
NamePeter Serafino Ercole Giulio Pio Pezzati 
Birth18 Sep 1902, Dorchester, Massachusetts
Death19 Feb 1993, Westwood, Massachusetts
EducationBoston College High School, Dorchester 1917
FatherSisto Alfonso Pezzati (1867-1915)
MotherCesarina Rosa Delfina Opizzi (1878-1972)
Spouses
Marriage1943, Boston, Massachusetts
ChildrenPamela Allessandra (1944-)
Peter Philip (1948-)
Notes for Peter Serafino Ercole Giulio Pio Pezzati
Born at 57 Batchelder Street. Certificate says father is a storekeeper.
1942 directory shows him living at 10 Hamilton Street, Dorchester. He had previously lived with his widowed mother at 43 Stanley Street, 333 Columbia Road, 339 Bowdoin Avenue in Dorchester.
1944 directory shows him serving in the Army. Wife Mary at 3 Akron Street, Roxbury.
“ Was drafted during World War II and worked on the home front painting military posters, drawing for military manuals, etc.” Eric Borgman
In 1948 he is shown at 103 Hemenway Street, Boston.
In 1950 he is shown at 67 School Street, Beverly, Massachusetts.
“Pietro Pezzati (September 18 1902 - February 19 1993) was an American portrait painter who was located in the Boston area. His art was rooted in the Renaissance tradition. His artwork included landscapes, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastel and oil portraits.
He was born Peter S. Pezzati to Italian immigrant parents, Sisto and Cesarina Opizzi Pezzati, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Peter graduated from Boston College High School in 1917 where he studied both Latin and Greek. He was to eventually master six languages. He then won a scholarship to the Child-Walker School of Arts and Crafts in Boston; there he studied under American painter Charles Hopkinson, who took him on as an assistant.
In the mid-1920s he taught art at the Child-Walker School for two years, then went on a six-month traveling and painting tour of Europe, especially France and Italy, arriving back in Boston just in time to attend his sister Josephine's wedding on February 19 1928, where he was the best man of Bruno Ferroli. He continued to apprentice under Hopkinson, and worked at Hopkinson's Fenway studio.
Peter painted many eminent Bostonians and Americans such as Ralph Lowell and William L. Kenly. His paintings are hanging in institutions across the United States, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Symphony Hall, The Massachusetts Historical Society, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Institution, which holds a collection of some of his papers and for which he was recorded as part of their oral history program. His portraits have also been exhibited at the Margaret Brown and Vose Galleries in Boston, at the Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C., the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition, the 1939 World's Fair and the National Galleries in Washington.
Peter married Mary Palmer of Boston in 1943. They had two children, Pamela and Peter. He died at the age of 90 of cerebral vascular disease in Westwood, Massachusetts, where he had retired with his second wife, Dr. Madeleine Field Crawford after having lived in Needham, Massachusetts for over twenty years. His granddaughter Jennifer Raskin is a television producer and filmmaker.”
1942 directory shows him living at 10 Hamilton Street, Dorchester. He had previously lived with his widowed mother at 43 Stanley Street, 333 Columbia Road, 339 Bowdoin Avenue in Dorchester.
1944 directory shows him serving in the Army. Wife Mary at 3 Akron Street, Roxbury.
“ Was drafted during World War II and worked on the home front painting military posters, drawing for military manuals, etc.” Eric Borgman
In 1948 he is shown at 103 Hemenway Street, Boston.
In 1950 he is shown at 67 School Street, Beverly, Massachusetts.
“Pietro Pezzati (September 18 1902 - February 19 1993) was an American portrait painter who was located in the Boston area. His art was rooted in the Renaissance tradition. His artwork included landscapes, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastel and oil portraits.
He was born Peter S. Pezzati to Italian immigrant parents, Sisto and Cesarina Opizzi Pezzati, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Peter graduated from Boston College High School in 1917 where he studied both Latin and Greek. He was to eventually master six languages. He then won a scholarship to the Child-Walker School of Arts and Crafts in Boston; there he studied under American painter Charles Hopkinson, who took him on as an assistant.
In the mid-1920s he taught art at the Child-Walker School for two years, then went on a six-month traveling and painting tour of Europe, especially France and Italy, arriving back in Boston just in time to attend his sister Josephine's wedding on February 19 1928, where he was the best man of Bruno Ferroli. He continued to apprentice under Hopkinson, and worked at Hopkinson's Fenway studio.
Peter painted many eminent Bostonians and Americans such as Ralph Lowell and William L. Kenly. His paintings are hanging in institutions across the United States, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Symphony Hall, The Massachusetts Historical Society, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Institution, which holds a collection of some of his papers and for which he was recorded as part of their oral history program. His portraits have also been exhibited at the Margaret Brown and Vose Galleries in Boston, at the Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C., the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition, the 1939 World's Fair and the National Galleries in Washington.
Peter married Mary Palmer of Boston in 1943. They had two children, Pamela and Peter. He died at the age of 90 of cerebral vascular disease in Westwood, Massachusetts, where he had retired with his second wife, Dr. Madeleine Field Crawford after having lived in Needham, Massachusetts for over twenty years. His granddaughter Jennifer Raskin is a television producer and filmmaker.”