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Matthew William Peters

Matthew William Peters (1742 - 1814) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Matthew Peters is known for Portrait and genre painting.

Matthew William Peters (1742 – 20 March 1814) was an English portrait and genre painter who later became an Anglican clergyman and chaplain to George IV.  He became known as "William" when he started signing his works as "W. Peters".

Peters was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, the son of Matthew Peters (born at Belfast, 1711), a civil engineer and member of the Royal Dublin Society; by Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of George Younge of Dublin.  The family moved from England to Dublin when Peters was young, where his father "advised on the improvement of loughs and rivers for navigation" and published two treatises on the subject.

Peters received his artistic training from Robert West in Dublin; in 1756 and 1758 he received prizes from the first School of Design in Dublin.  In 1759, he was sent by the Dublin Society to London to become a student of Thomas Hudson and won a premium from the Society of Arts.  The group also paid for him to travel   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3657 characters.]  Artist bio

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