Peter Elliott

Peter Elliott has had a lifelong interest in both history and art. Peter was a career lawyer but now devotes his time to researching and writing books with an art history tilt.

His latest book is Looted! The Nazi Art Plunder of Jewish Families in France. It was released by Pen & Sword Books, UK, in October 2025. It is profiled on the 'Looted Art' website, Books and Publications.

Peter Elliott is the author of five previous books:

Thomas Muir: 'Lad O' Pairts': The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844-1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist. The book is recommended by Kathy Munro, on The Heritage Portal, as an 'even-handed biography full of appeal [which] does not shy away from the points of controversy around Muir’s attitudes and how policies of a century ago are to be evaluated today.’

Constance: One Road to Take. This book covers the life and photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914-2000) and is described as an ‘important achievement’ by African Studies Review, June 2020, being the 'only full-length treatment of Larrabee’s life and art';

Nita Spilhaus (1878–1967) and her artist friends in the Cape, described as “a comprehensive resource” by South African Art Times, October 2015;

Eight Months in the Veneto, a story of the endurance and courage of British Liaison Officers with the partisans in the mountains of the Veneto, Italy. 1944-1945; and

Spilhaus: five hundred years of history (1450-1950), the story of a German/South African family.