About Maarten Peeters
Lived 1500 – 1566. Maarten Peeters was a painter and publisher.
Maarten Peeters or Marten Peeters van Ghelle ( – 1566) was a Flemish painter, print publisher and dealer active in Antwerp.
Peeters was born in Geel, Duchy of Brabant, around 1500. He moved to Antwerp, where he was active as a painter, print publisher and dealer. He was dean five times overall between 1533 and 1559. Michiel and future painter Pieter II. He was their warden through their minority. His son, Maarten Peeters II, also a painter, married Johanna Reyns, the widow of painter Willem Key. Maarten II may have continued his father's business.
He died in Antwerp after 1565, probably around 1566 or shortly before.
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Flemish painter (1500–1566)
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Maarten Peeters was born in 1500 in Antwerp.
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Maarten Peeters died in 1566.
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Maarten Peeters was a painter and publisher.
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