Gillis Peeters - Artist Info

About Gillis Peeters

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    Gillis Peeters (1612 – 1653), was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver who contributed to the development of marine art and landscape painting in Flanders.

    He was born in Antwerp and was the older brother of the marine painters Catharina, Jan I and Bonaventura Peeters. He is recorded in 1631 as the pupil of the Dutch flower painter Anthony Claesz the Younger who had left his home country in 1629.

    In 1634 Gillis became together with his brother Bonaventura a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. Initially the two brothers shared a studio in Antwerp until in 1641 Bonaventura moved to Hoboken (Antwerp) where he worked in a studio with his siblings and pupils Catharina and Jan Peeters.

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