found: Sprague, W.B. Annals of the Amer. pulpit, 1859:frontispiece (P. Pelham; illustrator)
found: Groce, G. N.Y. Hist Soc. dict. of artists in Amer., 1957(Pelham, Peter; mezzotint engraver, portrait painter, schoolmaster; b. 1697; d. 12/1751)
found: DAB(Pelham, Peter; b. ca. 1695; d. Dec. 1751)
found: Mercer, P. Life of the Gallant Pelham, 1958:p. 13 (Peter Pelham; b. Chichester, England, ca. 1690)
found: Fielding, M. Dict. of American painters, scupltors and engravers, 1965(Pelham, Peter; b. in England about 1684; d. 1751)
found: NUC pre-1956(Pelham, Peter, 1684?-1751)
found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Pelham, Peter, 1697-1751; note: earliest American portrait artist; stepfather to John Singleton Copley; born Chichester England; sometimes confused with another Peter Pelham, probably born 1684 in England)