William Peake (c. 1580–1639) was an English painter and printseller.
Life
He was the son of the painter
Robert Peake the Elder, and father of the printseller and royalist army officer,
Sir Robert Peake. In the accounts for the funeral of
Henry, Prince of Wales in 1612 he is referred to as "Mr Peake, the younger Paynter", and credited with making a gilded staff for the prince's effigy.
His apprentices included the painter
William Dobson
William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised); 28 October 1646 (buried)) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "''the most excellent painter that England has yet bred''". He ...
and the engraver
William Faithorne. No paintings are attributed to him with certainty, but the
National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to:
* National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra
* National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred
*National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C.
*National Portrait Gallery, London
...
in London has several of his
engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ar ...
s.
William Peake, National Portrait Gallery, London
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Notes
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English engravers
1580s births
1639 deaths
16th-century English painters
English male painters
17th-century English painters
17th-century engravers