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TTTAS originally a piCture-feller on Holborn-bridge, and had the ho-
▼ * nour of being Faithorn’s mailer. In a catalogue of Engliffi pain-
ters prefixed to De Piles’s Art of Painting, he is called prince Rupert’s
painter.
* The earlieil mention of him that appears, is in the books of lord
Harrington, treafurer of the chambers to James I, being accounts of money
received and paid by him. Item. Paid to Robert Peake, picture maker,
“ by warrant from the council, dated the 4th of October, 1612, for three
“ feveral pictures made by him at the commandment of the Duke of York,
his officers, and given away and difpofed of by the Duke’s Grace,
“ Twenty Pounds.”
It does not appear whether thefe pictures were in oil or water colours;
but it is probable that they were portraits of king Charles the firfi, then
duke of York. But that Peake did paint in oil is afcertained by Peacham
in his book of limning, where he exprefsly celebrates his good friend Air.
Peake for oil colours.
When the civil wars broke out between Charles I. and the parliament*
Peake took up arms on behalf of his fovereign, and he received the honour
of knighthood at Oxford the 28th of March, 1645. He was made a lieu-
tenant-colonel, and had a command in Bafing-houfe at the time it was
befieged by Cromwell; and where himfelf, with his fcholar Faithorn
(whom he had perfuaded to enlift under him) were taken prifoners. J-He
died in July, 1667, and was buried in St. Sepulchre’s, London, with great
military pomp, to which pariffi he had been a confiderable benefactor.
* Anecdotes of Painting.
f Lloyd’s State Worthies,
▼ * nour of being Faithorn’s mailer. In a catalogue of Engliffi pain-
ters prefixed to De Piles’s Art of Painting, he is called prince Rupert’s
painter.
* The earlieil mention of him that appears, is in the books of lord
Harrington, treafurer of the chambers to James I, being accounts of money
received and paid by him. Item. Paid to Robert Peake, picture maker,
“ by warrant from the council, dated the 4th of October, 1612, for three
“ feveral pictures made by him at the commandment of the Duke of York,
his officers, and given away and difpofed of by the Duke’s Grace,
“ Twenty Pounds.”
It does not appear whether thefe pictures were in oil or water colours;
but it is probable that they were portraits of king Charles the firfi, then
duke of York. But that Peake did paint in oil is afcertained by Peacham
in his book of limning, where he exprefsly celebrates his good friend Air.
Peake for oil colours.
When the civil wars broke out between Charles I. and the parliament*
Peake took up arms on behalf of his fovereign, and he received the honour
of knighthood at Oxford the 28th of March, 1645. He was made a lieu-
tenant-colonel, and had a command in Bafing-houfe at the time it was
befieged by Cromwell; and where himfelf, with his fcholar Faithorn
(whom he had perfuaded to enlift under him) were taken prifoners. J-He
died in July, 1667, and was buried in St. Sepulchre’s, London, with great
military pomp, to which pariffi he had been a confiderable benefactor.
* Anecdotes of Painting.
f Lloyd’s State Worthies,