PEETERS, Bonaventura the Elder
Flemish painter (b. 1614, Antwerpen, d. 1652,
Hoboken). Related Paintings of PEETERS, Bonaventura the Elder :. | The Swan Maidens | A pair of wooden Clogs (nn04) | modellstudie | From the Pearl of Holy Antiquity | The Narrows from Staten Island | Related Artists: Arthur Melville,ARSA,RSW,RWS1855-1904 Metcalf, Willard LeroyAmerican Impressionist Painter, 1858-1925
American painter and illustrator. His formal education was limited, and at 17 he was apprenticed to the painter George Loring Brown of Boston. He was one of the first scholarship students admitted to the school of art sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and took classes there in 1877 and 1878. After spending several years illustrating magazine articles on the Zuni Indians of New Mexico, he decided to study abroad and in 1883 left for Paris. There he studied at the Acad?mie Julian under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. During the five years he spent in France he became intimately acquainted with the countryside around the villages of Grez-sur-Loing and Giverny. He returned to America in 1888 Johann Baptist Reiterpainted Slumbering Woman in 1849
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