Jan Brueghel the Elder
Flemish painter (1568–1625)
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He painted paradise landscapes and flower garlands so fine they called him "Velvet." Jan Brueghel the Elder invented entire genres in the first quarter of the 17th century — then spent part of his career reworking his more famous father's peasant scenes.
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Jan Brueghel the Elder was born in 1568, the younger son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and grew up in the shadow of a Renaissance giant. By the early 1600s he had become court painter to the Archduke and Duchess Albert VII and Isabella, sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands, and a close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens — together they led Flemish Baroque painting for three decades. He worked across an enormous range: history paintings, allegorical scenes, seascapes, battle scenes, village life, hellfire and the underworld. But his innovation lay in what he invented — flow…
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