St. Paul Wrecked at Sea

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Bonaventura Peeters was born in Antwerp in 1614 and became a master of the city’s Guild of St. Luke (the painters’ guild) in 1634. Little is known about his training, but he came from a family of marine and landscape painters. He shared a studio in Antwerp with his brother Gillis, with whom he collaborated. He later lived in Hoboken and worked with his sister Catharina and brother Jan Peeters I. The naturalism of his paintings of northern European landscapes has led some to believe that he travelled around Scandinavia, but his paintings of southern European seascapes are generally held to be imaginative rather than observational. Other paintings by Bonaventura Peeters can be seen in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Places

Mediterranean Sea, Malta

Subjects

seascape/coastal scene, biblical, fire, stone/rock, man, robe, helmet, New Testament, saint, shipwreck, ship

Materials & Techniques

panel, oil, oil painting

Artist

Bonaventura Peeters (1614 - 1652)

Title

St. Paul Wrecked at Sea

Date

c. 1635

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 52.50 cm, width: 98.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sir Bruce Ingram, 1963

GAC number

1472