Peter Faes (1750–1814)

• Was a Flemish painter.
• He was born in the village of Meer (now part of Hoogstraten, in the Belgian province of Antwerp).
• He studied at the Academy of Antwerp.
• At the Academy he became acquainted with Georges Frédéric Ziesel and Jan Frans Eliaerts.
• He was one of the founders in 1788 of a society of artists known as the Konstmaatschappij (the 'Art Society').
• Other founders included Hendrik Frans de Cort, Balthasar Paul Ommeganck, Willem Schaeken, Antoon Herry and others...
• His work was very well received and his patrons included Maria Christina, the joint regent of the Austrian Netherlands.
• She took many of his paintings back to Vienna upon her return. 

• Through marriage he was linked to the Antwerp neo-classicist painter Andries Cornelis Lens.

• He died in Antwerp.
• His work continued the manner of painting flowers and fruit of Jan van Huysum.
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