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PEE, JAN VAN, born at Amsterdam about 1652 (?), died at Antwerp, buried Oct. 7, 1710. Flemish school; genre painter, settled at Antwerp, where he received pupils in 1687 and 1695. In the Antwerp Museum is an Interior with Pastry Baker by him. By his son Theodoor van Pee (1669-1750), is a Family Room (1740) in the Schwerin Gallery.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 502; Van den Branden, 1189.


PEEL, LADY, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Robert Peel, Bart., London. Half-length, standing, wearing a broad hat with feathers, somewhat like that in Rubens's Chapeau de Paille, for which it was designed as a companion-piece. Royal Academy, 1827.—Gower, Romney and Lawrence, 33, 72.


PEELE, JOHN T., born in Peterborough, England, in 1822. Genre painter, self-taught. Taken to America in his second year; in early youth painted portraits in the chief cities of the United States and England. In 1846 he settled in New York and turned his attention to the painting of children; in 1851 finally returned to England. Associate of the National Academy and member of the Society of British Artists. Exhibits in London and New York. Studio in London. Works: Children of the Wood, Osborne House, Isle of Wight; Music of the Reeds; Children of Robert Thornton (1874); Highland Supper; Prayer for Health; Recitation for Grandpa, George A. Moss; Village School (1879); Heavily Laden (1883); Cornish Fish Girl (1884); Bit of Gossip, Bird's Nest (1885).


PEERDT, ERNST TE, born at Tecklenburg, Westphalia, Nov., 1852. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Bendemann, then in Munich of Piloty and Diez, and in Berlin of Knaus; since 1878 settled in Rome. Works: Convent Toilet; About Nothing!.—Müller, 411.



PEETERS, BONAVENTURA, born in Antwerp, baptized July 23, 1614, died at Hoboken, near Antwerp, July 25, 1652. Flemish school; marine painter, who especially represented the sea in its most tempestuous forms. Master of the guild in 1634; travelled extensively at sea. Works: Storm at Sea, Historical Society, New York; Coast of Agitated Sea, Men-of-War near Harbour (1636), Berlin Museum; Ships and Boats in Agitated Sea, Venetian Fort stormed by Turks, Fortified Harbour, Vienna Museum; View of Middelbourg, Museum, Antwerp; View of Antwerp, City Hall, ib.; Stormy Sea with Shipwreck, Brussels Museum; Roadstead of Vlissingen, Amsterdam Museum; View of Corfu (1652); View of Scheveningen, Dresden Gallery; Dutch Coast Scene, Düsseldorf Gallery; River Bank (1636), Brunswick Gallery; View of Dordrecht (1647), Storm at Sea, Darmstadt Museum; others in Museums of Aix-la-Chapelle, Basle, Dunkirk, Gotha (2), Nantes, Naples, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Weimar; Galleries of Aschaffenburg, Augsburg (2), Bamberg, Cassel, Christiania, Schleissheim (2, one dated 1642), Schwerin (3); Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Harrach, and Liechtenstein (3, one dated 1647) Galleries, Vienna.—Annales de l'acad. d'archéol. de Belgique, vi. 71; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Kellen, i. 75; Kramm, v. 1262; Kugler (Crowe), i. 262; Rooses (Reber), 420; Van den Branden, 1046.


PEETERS, CATHARINA, born at Antwerp, Aug. 16, 1615, died there in 1676. Flemish school; marine and still-life painter, sister and pupil of preceding, with whom she lived until his death, when she took up her home with her brother Jan at Hoboken, whence both removed to Antwerp in 1654. Works: Birds and Table-Service, Salad-Bowl with Fruit, etc., and two similar