Bonaventura Peeters or Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (1614 – 1652)

• Was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and etcher.
• He became one of the leading marine artists in the Low Countries in the first half of the 17th century.
• He was a brother of the seascape painters Jan the Elder, Gillis the Elder and Catharina Peeters.
• He moved in 1641 to Hoboken (Antwerp) where he lived in a spacious residence.
• He was the teacher of his siblings Catharina and Jan Peeters (I).
• Peeters never married.
• He died in Hoboken, aged 38 after suffering from ill health the last years of his life.
• Bonaventura Peeters the Younger a marine painter, was his nephew, son of Gillis Peeters the Elder.
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