Peeter Baltens or Pieter Custodis (c. 1527 – 1584) 

• Was a Flemish Renaissance painter, draughtsman, engraver and publisher.
• Baltens was also active as an art dealer and poet.
• He was known for his genre paintings, religious compositions and landscapes.
• He is credited as being one of the key inventors of the genre of the village scene in Flemish and Dutch art.
• In 1550-1551 Bruegel worked as an assistant of Peeter Baltens.
• The two artists are known to have collaborated on an altarpiece for the Glovemakers' Guild in Mechelen.
• Van Mander wrote that Baltens was a good poet and collaborated from time to time with the painter Cornelis Ketel.
• Baltens' known oeuvre is limited to 13 paintings and 11 drawings, of which only one is fully signed.
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