Robert Streater

Robert Streater (1621–1679)[1] (also known as Streeter), was an English landscape, history, still-life and portrait artist, architectural painter, and etcher.

Streater was born in Covent Garden, London, and is said to have been the son of a painter, and to have received his instruction in painting and drawing from an artist called Du Moulin.

[2] In 1664 both Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn mentioned, and the latter described, "Mr. Thomas Povey's elegant house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the perspective in his court, painted by Streeter, is indeede excellent, with the vases in imitation of porphyrie and fountains".

Little of his decorative work now remains, except the ceiling of the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford,[2] which was restored in 1762 by Tilly Kettle[5] and again, by a conservation studio, in November 2008.

Streater's painting of Boscobel House, still in the British royal collection today, was recorded at Whitehall Palace in 1688 and is presumed to have been commissioned by Charles II.