ceiling of the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford, which was restored in 1762 by Tilly Kettle and again, by a conservation studio, in November 2008. His panels of Moses and Aaron, painted for St Michael Cornhill, remain in the church, incorporated into the Victorian reredos. Besides landscape, history, and still life, Streater also painted portraits. He etched a view of the Battle of Naseby, and designed some of the plates for Robert Stapleton's 'Juvenal'. Seven pictures by him, including five landscapes, were mentioned in a catalogue of James II's collection. Streater was a special favourite with Charles II, who made him serjeant-painter on his restoration to the throne. When Streater in his later years was suffering "from the stone", Charles II sent for a special surgeon from Paris to perform the necessary operation. Streater, however, died not long afterwards. in 1679. He was succeeded as serjeant-painter by his son, Robert Streater Jr., at whose death, in 1711, Streater's books, prints, drawings, and pictures were sold at auction. He had a brother, Thomas Streater, who married a daughter, an artist herself, of Remigius Van Leemput. A self-portrait of Robert Streater was engraved for Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting. Henry Anderton (1630–1667) was a pupil of Streater. Notes References Attribution External links 1621 births 1679 deaths 17th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters English etchers Landscape artists Court painters People from Covent Garden Painters from London