Peter Angelis

After learning the rudiments of art in his native town, he visited Flanders and Germany, and spent some time at Antwerp, where he was made a master of the Guild of St. Luke, in 1715–16; and at Düsseldorf, where he had the opportunity of educating himself by studying the paintings in the Electoral Gallery.

But being of a reserved disposition, and without ostentation, he exhibited his works with reluctance, his studious and sober temper inclining him more to the pursuit of his art than to the advancement of his fortune.

[2] He intended to return to England, but when he reached Rennes, in Brittany, he found his work in such demand there that he decided to stay.

He afterwards adopted the habits of Rubens and Vandyck, more picturesque indeed, but not so proper to improve his productions in what their chief beauty consisted, familiar life.

[3]Angelis' Queen Anne and the Knights of the Garter is thought to depict at a ceremony held at Kensington Palace in 1713, several years before his arrival in England.