St. Paul Wrecked at Sea

Bonaventura Peeters (1614 - 1652)

Oil on canvas

c. 1635

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Other
    City: storage
  • About the artist
    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.
  • Explore
    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
  • Details
    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