Peter Cramer

Self portrait, now at the Frederiksborg Palace.

Peter Cramer (24 August 1726 17 July 1782) was a self-taught artist who prepared the drawings for the illustration of Norden's 'Travels in Egypt,' and then became a decorative and theatrical painter. Together with this occupation he executed popular Danish scenes in the style of Teniers, and several of his pictures were engraved by Haas, Kleve, and Clemens. He died at Copenhagen in 1782.

The Danish escadre soon bound for Algier neing freed from the ice, 1770, now at the Danish Maritime Museum.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CRAMER, Peter" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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