Peter Monamy

Peter Monamy was an English marine painter who lived between 1681 and 1749.

Peter Monamy was baptised at the church of St BotolphswithoutAldgate, London, England, onJanuary 1681 . He was the last of the five known children, all born in London, of Pierre, or Peter, Monamy, born circa 1650 in Guernsey, and his English wife, Dorothy Gilbert and the grandson of Andr Monamy, 16121680, who had been a strongly committed Commonwealth Parliamentarian, and one of Guernseys Governors, during the 1650s. Dorothy Gilbert, born 1660 in London, was the daughter of James Gilbert, who had been Master of the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers in 1670 and 1672. A marriage allegation, datedOctober 1675, records the union of Peter MonAmy, of St Martins in the Fields, and Dorothy Gilbert, of St Trinity in the Minory, with her fathers consent, at All Hallowes in the Wall, London. Peter MonAmys age is given as abt 23, and Dorothy Gilberts age as abt 18. Their actual ages appear to have beenand 15.

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