Bonaventura Peeters the Younger

Bonaventura Peeters the Younger (Antwerp, 17 October 1648 – Antwerp, 2 September 1702), was a Flemish painter, drawing artist and sailor known for his marine and landscape paintings. He was a member of the Peeters family of artists which was active in Antwerp in the 17th century.

Life Peeters was born in Antwerp as the son of Gillis Peeters and Elisabeth de Smidt. Peeters was a scion of a family of painters specialised mainly in marine and landscape art. Peeters father and his uncle Bonaventura Peeters the Elder were marine painters and his brothers Willem (Guilliam, 1645–?) and Gillis (Egidius) the Younger (1645–1678) were also marine artists.

There is a record of a Bonaventure Peeters registering as a pupil of the genre painter Hendrick Govaerts at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the Guild year 1700–1701. This was likely his son, referred to as Bonaventura Peeters III, whom he had with his wife Petronella Specx. Peeters most likely trained in the family workshop. Peeters died in Antwerp where he was interred on 2 September 1702.

A series of topographical drawings has been attributed to different members of the Peeters family, some of which also to Bonavantura the Younger and his father Gillis. There is a series of 6 drawings of southern ports in the collections of the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage Museum, which are attributed to either Bonaventura or his father. This includes the View of a southern harbour (Pushkin Museum).