Background
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, Peutemans was born in Goes and, according to Houbraken, he died of the shock to his heart that he experienced during the Rotterdam earthquake of September 18, 1692.
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When he came to, the earthquake caused all of the skeletons in the room to shake and he felt the skulls laughing at him, whereupon he jumped up and ran in terror, covered in ground paint. Though he recovered enough to relate the story, he died soon afterwards. Houbraken also mentioned some painted cutout signboards he made, and mentioned specifically a cutout of a lifesize Swiss guard officer who stood guard at his home in Rotterdam.
He is known for some schutterstukken in Goes that were auctioned by that town in 1864.
