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John Peeters Or Pieters|1667|1727| John Peeters or Pieters (born 1667 died 1727), painter, born at Antwerp in 1667, was related to the eminent marine painter Bonaventura Peeters. He studied painting at Antwerp under a history painter called Eeckhout, and in 1685 came to England with a recommendation to Sir Godfrey Kneller Peeters worked with Kneller for several years, being one of Kneller's chief drapery painters until 1712, when he left, and devoted himself chiefly to mending and repairing damaged pictures and drawings. From his success in this line he obtained the nickname of 'Doctor Peeters'. He was also a skilled copyist, especially of the works of Rubens. He was one of the masters of George Vertue, the engraver, who spoke highly of his merits as a teacher. Peeters was a man of a lively disposition and improvident nature, and, after suffering much from the gout, he died in London in September 1727, and was buried in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.^{[DNB 1][DNB 2][1]}

References

1. [[Template:Cite DNB|vb=yes|author=Template:DNB LC|title=Peeters, John (DNB00)|work=Dictionary of National Biography|volume=44|pages=0|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Peeters,_John_(DNB00)]]

DNB references

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

1. Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists
2. Vertue's Diaries (British Museum Addit. manuscript 23076, f. 27).

External links

Peeters, John (DNB00)|Peeters, John

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