page_title: Daniel Seiter
section_title: Trivia
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel Seiter / Trivia
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Palace (Turin) - Galleria del Daniel - Ceiling -Central
context_page_description: Daniel Seiter, Saiter, or Seyter was a Viennese-born painter of the Baroque, who trained and worked in Italy.
context_section_description: In his biography of Seiter, Houbraken tells a curious anecdote about the Duke and Seiter, saying that Seiter was given a walking cane with diamonds on the head of it, to use as a maulstick to rest his hand on while painting. This story was told to him by a painter named Le Blon. He calls it a Maalstok. When Seiter was done painting he tried to give it back, but the Duke's guard told him to keep it as a token of regard. A similar expensive gift (it was solid gold) was given to Daniel Seghers by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange in exchange for a garland painting that hangs today in the Mauritshuis museum.
  Though details of his career are sketchy, Seiter became a painter for the Dukes of Savoy much later than 1655, and thus was not a witness to his patron's murderous massacre of the Vaudois, which the poet John Milton memorialized in his On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.  Seiter died in Turin.
caption: Daniel Seiter Hall in the  Royal Palace of Turin.
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