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Lights of Other Days by John F. Peto, 1906
Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org
Public domain
According to the museum's blurb, he specialised in painting things so real they fool your eye — burnt-down candles, battered lamps, stuff on its way to the bin. They say he stopped showing in galleries by 1890 and just painted for neighbours near his New Jersey home.