Pieter Perret
Flemish-Spanish engraver, printmaker
Pieter Perret or Peter Perret (Spanish: Pedro Perret c. 1555–1625) was a Flemish engraver. After training in Antwerp and Rome, he worked in Madrid in the service of Philip II of Spain. He introduced into Spain the Flemish printmaking tradition and the new artistic style that was developing among Northern artists under the influence of contemporary Italian art. He is credited with renewing Spanish printmaking. He was known for his large-scale architectural prints, frontispieces, portraits and reproductions of contemporary artworks.
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Born in Antwerp around 1555, he was a pupil of Maerten de Vos and Gerard de Jode. Prior to 1578 he studied engraving in Rome with Cornelis Cort. After that, he returned to Antwerp, eventually moving to Bavaria, where he was appointed engraver to William IV, Duke of Bavaria and the Elector of Cologne. During this time, he may also have worked in Paris for publisher Nicolas Le Bon.
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