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Peter Cross (other)
Peter Cross may refer to: * Peter Cross (painter) (c. 1645/50–1724), English miniature painter * Peter Cross (engraver) (1815–1862), American engraver * Pierre Cressoy (1924–1980), French actor sometimes credited as Peter Cross * Peter Cross (illustrator) (born 1951), British illustrator * Peter Hulme-Cross, British politician * Peter Cross (rugby union), English rugby mascot See also * Cross of St. Peter {{hndis, Cross, Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cross (painter)
Peter Cross(e) (–1724) was an English miniature painter. He imitated and perhaps trained under Samuel Cooper, and was extensively employed by royalty and the nobility as a miniaturist during the reign of Queen Anne. He is said to have created an erroneous type of the features of Mary, Queen of Scots by renovating a portrait of her to appear more beautiful. Identity It was once supposed that there were two painters, Peter Cross and Laurence or Lawrence Cross(e). The mistake originated with George Vertue, Vertue, who read the entwined initials PC of the artist's signature as LC. The miniatures are now all assigned to Peter Cross. He is erroneously called Lewis by Horace Walpole, Walpole and others.Cust 1888, p. 225. Life Peter Cross was the fourth son and youngest of seven children of Anthony Cross (–1651/2), who was a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, Drapers' Company in 1614, by his wife, Margaret, née Thrall (married in 1616), who resided on Lombard Street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |