PEETERS, Bonaventura the Elder
Flemish painter (b. 1614, Antwerpen, d. 1652,
Hoboken). Related Paintings of PEETERS, Bonaventura the Elder :. | European city landscape, street landsacpe, construction, frontstore, building and architecture. 176 | The Knights Dream | What is truth, Christ and Pilate | Blue Morning | Schlittschuhlaufer auf dem Y vor dem Paalhuis | Related Artists: Stefano TorelliBologna 1712-St Petersburg 1784
was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna. He studied first under his father, Felice Torelli, and then under Francesco Solimena. The future King of Poland, Augustus III, brought him to Dresden in 1740, where he painted altar-pieces and ceiling decorations, many destroyed in the Seven Years' War. He painted figures in Canaletto's twenty-nine views of Dresden (1741). In 1762 he was summoned to the Russian court where he painted ceilings in the Royal Palace, and some portraits, among the latter one of the Empress Elizabeth in armor. He was a clever caricaturist, and etched a few plates. He died in St. Petersburg. John Charlton1849-1917 Broederlam, MelchoirFlemish, active 1381-1409
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