Peeter Symons

Peeter Symons or Peeter Simons (fl 1629–1636) was a Flemish painter only known for his collaboration with Rubens in 1636 on the commission from the Spanish king Philip IV of Spain to create a series of mythological paintings to decorate the Torre de la Parada, a hunting lodge of the king near Madrid.

[2] He received various pupils including Michel de Rudder, Balthasar Willebeeck and Daniel Verbraken.

[2] Anthony van Dyck painted a portrait of Symons (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) around 1630–1632.

Rubens realized this important commission with the assistance of a large number of Antwerp painters such as Jacob Jordaens, Cornelis de Vos, Jan Cossiers, Peter Snayers, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, Theodoor van Thulden, Jan Boeckhorst, Jacob Peter Gowy, Jan Baptist Borrekens and others, who worked after Rubens' designs.

A second canvas painted by Symons representing Neptune and a nymph for the Torre de la Parada is documented but now considered lost.