Background
Peart was born at English Newton, a rural parish located immediately north-east of Monmouth.
Peart was born at English Newton, a rural parish located immediately north-east of Monmouth.
Royal Academy of Arts.
After leaving the school, he worked as an assistant to John Charles Lochee and then as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood, and was commissioned by the Marquess of Buckingham to carve a series of reliefs for his country house at Stowe. From the late 1780s, he began working on designs for large monuments as well as portrait busts. In 1792, he provided a statue of Henry V above the entrance to the Shire Hall in the king"s birthplace of Monmouth.
Peart continued to work for Wedgwood, and also carved a marble chimneypiece for the Marquess of Buckingham"s London residence in Pall Mall He died in 1798, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, and a young child.