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SIR PETER, an Anglo-Dutch painter; born in Soest, Westphalia, in 1617. He settled in London in 1641 and took to portrait painting, having hitherto essayed landscapes and historical subjects. He was employed successively by Charles I., Cromwell, and Charles II.
From the death of Vandyck he was the join the Danube nearly along the fron- first painter of the day in England down tier of Lower Austria and Hungary, Since the reorganization of the empire in 1867, it has become usual to speak of Hungary and the lands belonging to the Hungarian crown as Trans-leithan, and the rest of the empire as Cis-leithanthus giving the stream a factitious importance. to the arrival of Kneller. His best known pieces, apart from portraits of his royal patrons, are the beauties of the court of Charles II. at Hampton Court.
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