"Also known as
Maarten Peeters (Petri)
primary name: primary name: Peeters, Marteen van Gheele
other name: other name: Peters, Marten
other name: other ...
name: Petri, Martinus
Details
individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; dealer/auction house; publisher/printer; Flemish; Male
Life dates
1500 ca.-1566 or shortly before
Address
Antwerp, 'in insigni aurei fontis prope novam bursam' or 'in den Gulden Fonteyne op de Nieuwe Beurs'
Biography
Painter and print publisher and dealer in Antwerp. Plates lettered as Martinus Petrus (or Petri, in genitive). Entered the Guild of St Luke in 1525/6, and dean on five occasions between 1533 and 1559 (sharing position with Hans Liefrinck), died c.1566. Married 1534, publishing from 1540. Had a particular interest in French and Italian art, with plates after Primaticcio and others, and hence with Flemish Italianising artists. Republished almost all the plates of Lucas van Leyden, as well as others.
Bibliography
Edward Wouk, 'Maarten Peters, publisher at the sign of the Golden Fountain', in 'Delineavit et sculpsit', 38 2015, pp.2-49.
idem, in Belgian National Biography 2014 " - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG63691, 21.11.2021
