Pieter Verbrugghen I
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Pieter Verbrugghen I was a Flemish
Flemish people
The Flemings or Flemish are the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, where they are mostly found in the northern region of Flanders. They are one of two principal cultural-linguistic groups in Belgium, the other being the French-speaking Walloons...

 sculptor. His brother in law, Artus I Quellin, had a studio in Antwerp.

Biography

His biography, accompanied by an illustration, was published in Cornelis de Bie
Cornelis de Bie
Cornelis de Bie was a Brabant rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier.He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies...

's book of artists Het Gulden Cabinet
Het Gulden Cabinet
The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Free Art of Painting, or Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits written by the 17th century notary and rederijker Cornelis de Bie...

, 1668. The organ in the cathedral in Antwerp was finished by Pieter Verbrugghen the elder, base on a design made by the famous painter Erasmus Quellin.
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