Van Lint, after becoming a master himself in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1633, travelled to Rome where he worked for the Bishop of Ostia, Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi, creating art within a cathedral. While traveling in Italy, Peter van Lint created a travel album with sketches of the travellers, sights and scenes, that he encountered, documenting what travel looked like in 1636. It was during this period that he began to develop a Neo-Classic style. Before returning to Belgium in 1641, Van Lint frescoed the Cybo chapel in the Santa Maria del Popolo with the Legend of the True Cross. Additionally he took many religious commissions, in the style of the Bamboccianti, created numerous small genre scenes before finishing his tour in Paris from 1640 to 1641.
Once back in Belgium, 1642, he married Elisabeth Willemyns and had seven children with her. She widowed him in 1679; he married Anna Moeren the following year. His son and pupil, from his second marriage, Hendrik Frans van Lint, became an acclaimed landscape painter. His other students included: Caerel de las Cuevas, Jan-Baptista Ferrari and Godfried Maes.
His later works like the Marriage of the Virgin in Antwerp Cathedral were primarily religious paintings with some smaller paintings of worship that found markets in Spain and the Spanish communities of the New World. His work was also solicited by local art dealers. Van Lint also designed tapestries and in 1639 created a series on the Story of the Virgin Mary. Then in 1660 he designed 8 tapestries for a Story of Domitian. At the age of 81, Peter Van Lint died in Antwerp.
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