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Tillemans, Peter
(b Antwerp, c. 1684; d Norton, nr Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 5 Dec 1734). English painter of Flemish birth. Trained in the Netherlands, Tillemans and his brother-in-law, Peter Casteels (1684–1749), went to England in 1708 to work for a picture dealer named Turner as copyists of Old Master paintings. According to Vertue, he did ‘extreamly well’ in Turner’s employ, copying ‘Bourgonione for Battles ... & landskips of other Masters’ as well as making ‘small peices of his own Composition’. By 1711 he seems to have established his own painting practice and in that year became a founder-member of the Great Queen Street Academy, where he declared his speciality as ‘landskip’.
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