Jan Brueghel the Elder

Flemish painter (1568–1625)

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Lived 1568–1625, aged 57

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1568–1625
Aged 57

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FatherPieter Bruegel the Elder

SiblingPieter Brueghel the Younger

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Flemish painter who turned meticulous landscapes and still lifes into 17th-century bestsellers, often collaborating with Rubens. Son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, he spent his career out-producing his father's shadow.

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Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the younger 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.

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