Baltens [Balten; Balthazarszoon; Custodis], Peeter [Pieter]
(b Antwerp, c. 1526–28; d Antwerp, 1584).
- Jan Van der Stock
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South Netherlandish painter, draughtsman, engraver and publisher. He was the son of the sculptor Balten Janszoon de Costere (fl 1524). In 1550 he became a master in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp and in 1569 its dean. Primarily on the authority of van Mander, Baltens was long considered to be an inferior imitator of ...
