{{Short description|British drawing master, patron of the arts and landowner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Arms of Peter Denys: ''Argent, a cross patoncée gules between four fleurs-de-lis vert on a chief azure a greyhound courant of the field''<ref>Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p. 280; as seen on his hatchment in Easton Neston Church</ref> [[File:St Mary, Easton Neston - Hatchment (geograph 4471198).jpg|thumb|Hatchment of Peter Denys in Easton Neston Church; arms: Denys impaling Fermor]] '''Peter Denys''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DL}} (1760 – 1816) was a British drawing master, later patron of the arts and landowner.
He was the son of the language teacher Peter Denys (sometimes Denyss), who was himself the son of a Swiss emigrant.<ref name="pastellists.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Denys.pdf|format=PDF|title=Dictionary of the pastellists before 1800|author=Neil Jeffares|website=Pastellists.com|access-date=7 July 2022}}</ref>
Denys was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1812.
Denys married his pupil, Lady Charlotte Fermor (1766–1835), daughter of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret.<ref name="pastellists.com"/> With her income of £4,000 a year, he bought Sloane Place in London, and Fremington, Yorkshire.<ref name="pastellists.com"/>
Their son was the politician, Sir George Denys, 1st Baronet (1788–1857).
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