or Peeters, Bonaventura, a Dutch artist, was born at Amsterdam in 1614. He soon attained great excellence as a marine painter. His storm-pieces repre- Petersburg, sending a ship foundering upon a rock, and sailors clinging to spars amid the raging surf; were executed with great truth and originality. Scarcely less successful were his pictures of a calm sea-shore, with towns and castles on the coast, and of a sluggish river, with boats and barges sailing before a gentle breeze. He might have risen to still greater proficiency had he not died prematurely in 1652. Bonaventura Peters had a younger brother Jan, who imitated him both in style and in the choice of subjects.