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Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder ( BROY-gəl, US also BROO-gəl, Dutch: [ˈjɑm ˈbrøːɣəl] ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the Flemish Baroque painting of the first three decades of the 17th century. Brueghel worked in many genres including history paintings, flower still lifes, allegorical and mythological scenes, landscapes and seascapes, hunting pieces, village scenes, battle scenes and scenes of hellfire and the underworld. He was an important innovator who invented new types of paintings such as flower garland paintings, paradise landscapes, and gallery paintings in the first quarter of the 17th century. However, he generally avoided painting large figures, as in portraits, though he often collaborated with other painters who did these, while he did the landscape backgrounds, and sometimes the clothes. He further created genre paintings that were imitations, pastiches and reworkings of his father's works, in particular his father's genre scenes and landscapes with peasants. Brueghel represented the type of the pictor doctus, the erudite painter whose works are informed by the religious motifs and aspirations of the Catholic Counter-Reformation as well as the scientific revolution with its interest in accurate description and classification. He was court painter of the Archduke and Duchess Albrecht and Isabella, sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands. The artist was nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel. The first is believed to have been given him because of his mastery in the rendering of fabrics. The second nickname is a reference to his fame as a painter of (although not a specialist in) flower pieces and the last one to his invention of the genre of the paradise landscape. His brother Pieter Brueghel the Younger was traditionally nicknamed "de helse Brueghel" or "Hell Brueghel" because it was believed he was the author of a number of paintings with fantastic depictions of fire and grotesque imagery. These paintings have now been reattributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder.
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He was the son of Pieter Bruegel. He is famous for small-scale history paintings, flower still-lifes, allegorical and mythological scenes, and landscapes, including imaginary mountain landscapes, forest interiors, villages and country roads, ports, river views, seascapes, hunting scenes, battles and depictions of Hell and the underworld. Died suddenly in a cholera epidemic in Antwerp; his son, Jan the younger, took over the studio.
Nationalities
Flemish, Belgian, South Netherlandish
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Court Painter, Staffage Painter, Genre Artist, Landscapist, Painter
Names
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Breughels, Joh. Broegel, Joh. Brueghel, Jan (I) Bruegel, Hans Brueghel, de Fluwelen Brueghel, called the Old John Brueghel, Velvet Brueghel Called John Brueghel, called Velvet Brueghel John Brueghel, John Brughel, or Velvet Breughel John, otherwise Velvet Breughel John, Lavecio Breugel, Le Breugle de Velours, le Brueghel de Velours, Le Vieux Breughel, Monsu Brugo Novecchio, O. Breughel, O. Brughael, O. Brughel, Old Braughel, Old Breugel, Old Breughel, old Breughell, Old Bruegal, Old Brugel, old Brugell, Old Brughel, Old Brughell, P. Breugel de Velours, Sam. Breughell, Sammel Breughel, Sammet Breugel, Sammet Breughel, Sammet-Breughel, Sammet=Breughel, Sammit Breughel, Sammt=Breughel, Sammt Breughell, T. Breugel, the elder Breughel, the elder Brueghel, Van Breughel, van Brouel de folour, V. Breugel, V. Breughel, V. Brueghel, V. Brughel, V. Brughell, V. Brughels, Vel. Breughel, Vel. 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