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Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte, Pietro Candido) ca. (1548-1628)

• Was a Flemish-born Mannerist painter.
• Candid was a tapestry designer and draughtsman active in Italy and Bavaria.
• He was an artist at the Medici court in Florence and at the Bavarian court of Duke William V and his successor Maximilian I in Munich.
• He married and had five children, including a son Wilhelm, who was a painter.
• His daughter married the engraver Filips Sadeler.
• He was the teacher of Johann Ulrich Loth.
• He died in Munich.
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