Wint, PETER DE, water-colourist, was born at Stone, Staffordshire, 21st January 1784, the son of a physician, sprung from a Dutch family settled in New York. He was trained to be a mezzotint engraver under J. R. Smith, but soon took to painting both in oil and water-colours, and his fame rests on his beautiful water-colour illustrations of English landscape, English architecture, and English country-life. Lincoln (where he found a wife), Yorkshire, and parts of Derbyshire were the regions he loved best; but he painted scenes on the Thames, the Trent, and in Wales and elsewhere. He exhibited mainly in the rooms of the Old Water-colour Society, and is well represented both in the National Gallery and at South Kensington. He died at London (where he had mostly lived), 30th June 1849. Among his most famous pictures are 'The Cricketers,' 'Lincoln Cathedral,' 'The Hay Harvest,' 'Nottingham,' 'Richmond Hill,' 'Cows in Water,' 'A Cornfield' and 'A Woody Landscape' are oils at South Kensington.
See the Memoir by Walter Armstrong (1883), and Redgrave's David Cox and Peter de Wint in the 'Great Artists' (1891).