The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...

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Title: The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...
Publication: [London :: s.n.],; 1694.
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Subject terms: Artists.; Engravers.; Portraits.; Artists -- Portraits.
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53. Bonaventure Peters

Was born at Antwerp Anno. Dom. 1614. he had a rare Faculty, in Sea Pieces, sometimes representing a Calm Sea, full of goodly Ships and Galleys riding, with Pendants and Streamers display∣ed as it were in Triumph, sometimes an outragious Storm, in which, the surious Winds, and foaming billows seem to con∣tend with each other for Victory, while some shattered bark or sinking Ship is the Sacrifice that must appease their wrath. His Sea-fights are also very natural, where he observes as to his Design, an exact order, and decorum amidst a seeming confu∣sion of Fire, Smoke, blood, Wrecks and Splinters of Ships, &c. He Painted also prospects of Towns Castles &c. very fine.