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Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 - January 13, 1625) was a Flemish painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting Painting and printmaking known for his landscape art and peasant scenes ....
 and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger
Jan Brueghel the Younger

Jan Brueghel the Younger , was a Flemish Baroque painter, and the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder.He was trained by his father and spent his career producing works in a similar style....
. Nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel, of which the latter two were derived from favored subjects, while the former may refer to the velveteen sheen of his colors or to his habit of wearing velvet.



He was born in Brussels
Brussels

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Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 - January 13, 1625) was a Flemish painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting Painting and printmaking known for his landscape art and peasant scenes ....
 and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger
Jan Brueghel the Younger

Jan Brueghel the Younger , was a Flemish Baroque painter, and the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder.He was trained by his father and spent his career producing works in a similar style....
. Nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel, of which the latter two were derived from favored subjects, while the former may refer to the velveteen sheen of his colors or to his habit of wearing velvet.

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He was born in Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
. His father died in 1569, and then, following the death of his mother in 1578, Jan, along with his brother Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Pieter Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish painting, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Brueghel the Elder paintings and nicknamed "Hell Brueghel" for his fantastic treatments of fire and grotesque imagery....
 ("Hell Brueghel") and sister Marie, went to live with their grandmother Mayken Verhulst (widow of Pieter Coecke van Aelst). She was an artist in her own right, and according to Carel van Mander
Carel van Mander

Karel van Mander , Flemish people Painting, poet and biographer, was born of a noble family at Meulebeke....
, possibly the first teacher of the two sons. The family moved to Antwerp
Antwerp

||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions....
 sometime after 1578.

He first applied himself to painting flowers and fruits, and afterwards acquired considerable reputation by his landscapes and sea-pieces. He formed a style more independent of his father's than did his brother Pieter the Younger. His early works are often landscapes containing scenes from scripture, particularly forest landscapes betraying the influence of the master forest landscape-painter Gillis van Coninxloo
Gillis van Coninxloo

Gillis van Coninxloo was a Netherlands painter of forest landscape arts, the most famous member of a large family of artists. He travelled through France, and lived in Germany for several years to avoid religious persecution....
. Later in his career, he moved toward the painting of pure landscapes and townscapes, and, toward the end, of still lifes.

After residing long at Cologne he travelled into Italy, where his landscapes, adorned with small figures, were greatly admired. He left a large number of pictures, chiefly landscapes, which are executed with great skill.

Many of his paintings are collaborations in which figures by other painters were placed in landscapes painted by Jan Brueghel. The most famous of his collaborators was Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality....
 in several of his small pictures—such as his "Vertumnus and Pomona," the "Satyr viewing the Sleeping Nymph," and the "Terrestrial Paradise.".

He had a studio in Antwerp
Antwerp

||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions....
, where he died from cholera
Cholera

Cholera, sometimes known as Asiatic or epidemic cholera, is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae....
 on January 13, 1625.

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See also

  • List of Belgian painters
    List of Belgian painters

    This is an incomplete list of Belgian painters, with place and date of birth and painting style. For painters from this region before 1830, see List of Flemish painters...


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