Peter Angelis

Queen Anne and the Knights of the Garter from about 1720, now in the National Portrait Gallery

Peter Angelis. This painter was born at Dunkirk in 1685. After learning the rudiments of design in his native town, he visited Flanders and Germany, and resided some time at Dusseldorp, where he had an opportunity of improving himself, by studying the paintings in the Electoral Gallery. He painted conversations, and landscapes with small figures, into which he was fond of introducing fruit and fish. He came to England about the year 1712, where he met with great encouragement, and resided here sixteen years. In 1728 he set out for Italy, and passed three years at Rome, where his pictures were admired; but being of a reserved disposition, and without ostentation, he exhibited his works with reluctance; his studious and sober temper inclining him more to the pursuit of his art than to the advancement of his fortune. In his return from Italy, with an intention of again visiting England, he made some stay at Rennes, in Bretagne, and met with so much employment, that lie settled in that city, where he died in 1734, in the fortyninth year of his age. His style was a mixture of those of Teniers and Watteau, with more grace than the former, and more nature than the latter. His pencil is easy, bright, and flowing, but his colouring is occasionally faint and nerveless.

Scene in a court of inn, 1724, now in the Rennes Fine Arts Museum

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "ANGELIS, Peter". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]