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Jan Brueghel the Elder

Flemish Baroque painter, inventor of paradise landscapes and flower garlands.

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Peter Paul Rubens · via Wikipedia: Jan Brueghel the Elder · Public domain

He worked in many genres including flower still lifes, landscapes, and scenes of hellfire and the underworld.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Jan Brueghel
Born
1568
Birthplace
Brussels, Habsburg Netherlands
Died
13 January 1625
Place of death
Antwerp, Habsburg Netherlands
Occupation
Painter, draughtsman
Movement
Flemish Baroque
Children
11, including Jan the Younger, Anna Brueghel and Ambrosius

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Jan Brueghel the Elder was born in Brussels as the son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.[2] The early biographer Karel van Mander wrote that Verhulst was their first art teacher, teaching them drawing and watercolour painting of miniatures.[2] He traveled to Italy, visiting Cologne, Frankenthal, and Naples, where he produced drawings after June 1590.[3][4] Following their mother's 1578 death, Jan and his brother Pieter, together with their sister Marie, moved in with their widowed grandmother Verhulst.[2]

On 4 October 1601, Brueghel was officially recorded as a burgher of Antwerp, and he had been chosen as dean of the Guild of Saint Luke the previous month.[5] A gastrointestinal upset led to complications that caused Jan Brueghel's death in Antwerp on 13 January 1625.[6]

What the cited sources add

Rubens painted a portrait of Jan Brueghel and his family in 1612 or 1613, according to a 2002 catalog.[7] According to a 2013 book, Brueghel traveled to Prague around the middle of 1604; Prague was the primary seat of Rudolf II's court.[8] That 2013 book also says that Rudolf II's court drew numerous Northern artists, who developed a style now termed Northern Mannerism.[8] A 2006 study reports that Brueghel ran a sizable workshop, which enabled him to create many works.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kolb, 2005, p. 1 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool, Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 444–455 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The lives and careers of Brueghel and Rubens, in: Anne T. Woollett et al., 2006, pp. 5–33; Joaneath A. Spicer. "Frankenthal school." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 22 April 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The lives and careers of Brueghel and Rubens, in: Anne T. Woollett et al., 2006, pp. 5–33 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Matthias Depoorter, Jan Brueghel at Baroque in the Southern Netherlands (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Probably similar to, and sometimes referred to as cholera, but the specific infection we now call by that name did not reach Europe until the 19th century. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peter C. Sutton, Dutch & Flemish Paintings: The Collection of Willem Baron Van Dedem, frances lincoln ltd, 2002, p. 66 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peter Marshall, The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague, Random House, 28 November 2013, p. 61 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Jan Brueghel the Elder" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Anne T. Woollett et al., 2006, pp. 156–165 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Jan Brueghel the Elder (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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