{{short description|American painter}} {{other people|Peter Gross}} __NOTOC__ {{Infobox artist | bgcolour = | name = Peter Alfred Gross | image =Peter Alfred Gross in his studio.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Gross, {{Circa|1890s}} | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Circa|1849}} | birth_place = Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = 1914 | death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | field = Painting | training = Edmond Marie Petitjean | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} thumb|Gross's ''The Lighthouse'', 1904 '''Peter Alfred Gross''' (c. 1849–1914) was an American landscape painter known primarily for his French seascapes and countrysides.
Gross was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. Most of his career (1874–1914) was spent living and painting in France, where he also studied with Edmond Marie Petitjean. He exhibited at the Paris Salon and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Notable students of Gross included Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth, who was the husband of his cousin.<ref>Hutson-Saxon, p. 208.</ref>
==Major exhibitions== *Art Institute of Chicago *Exposition Universelle (1889) *Paris Salon *Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts *World's Columbian Exposition
==Major collections== *Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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==References== *{{cite book | author=Hutson-Saxon, Martha Young | title=Walter Emerson Baum: Pennsylvania Artist and Founder of the Baum School of Art and Allentown Art Museum | location=Souderton | year=1996}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gross, Peter Alfred}} Category:1840s births Category:1914 deaths Category:20th-century American male artists Category:20th-century American painters Category:American Impressionist painters Category:American landscape painters Category:American male painters Category:Artists from Allentown, Pennsylvania