Peter Angelis (5 November 1685 – 1734), variously recorded as Pieter Angellis, Pieter Anchillus, Pieter van Angellis or Pieter Angelles, was a painter active in Flanders, Germany, Italy, England and France.

Life

Peter Angelis was born at

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, where he was made a master of the

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, in 1715–16; and at Düsseldorf, where he had the opportunity of educating himself by studying the paintings in the

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. He painted conversation-pieces, and landscapes with small figures, into which he often introduced fruit and fish. In about 1719 he moved to England where he met with great success and stayed for sixteen years. In 1727 he set out for Italy, and spent 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. He intended to return to England, but when he reached

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, in Brittany, he found his work in such demand there that he decided to stay. He died in Rennes in 1734. Horace Walpole wrote of him:

His manner was a mixture of
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and Watteau, with more grace than the former, more nature than the latter. His pencil was easy, bright, and flowing, but his colouring too faint and nerveless. He afterwards adopted the habits of Rubens and Vandyck, more picturesque indeed, but not so proper to improve his productions in what their chief beauty consisted, familiar life.

Angelis' ''Queen Anne and the Knights of the Garter'' is thought to depict at a ceremony held at Kensington Palace in 1713, several years before his arrival in England. It is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

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* Attribution: * 1685 births 1734 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters People from Dunkirk Painters from Antwerp 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-17thC-stub