Pieter Francis Peters - Artist Info

About Pieter Francis Peters

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Peter Francis Peters
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    Francis Pieter Peters was the son and pupil of the glass painter of the same name. He moved to Germany in 1836, living in Mannheim for several years before working in Stuttgart from 1845. In Stuttgart King Wilhelm provided him with a studio in the old castle and he became a traveling companion to Queen Olga.

    He traveled through Upper Bavaria, Tyrol, Switzerland and Northern Italy. In Stuttgart he founded a permanent art exhibition together with the painter Hermann Herdtle which also led to intensive interaction and the exchange of paintings with artist friends in Munich.

    Between 1896 and 1903 Peters spent four summer with his family at Köngen castle, southeast of Stuttgart where he painted. The castle...

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