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BREUGHEL (or BRUEGIHEL), PIETER

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BREUGHEL (or BRUEGIHEL), PIETER , Flemish painter, was the son of a See also:peasant residing in the See also:village of Breughel near See also:Breda. After receiving instruction in See also:painting from Koek, whose daughter he married, he spent some See also:time in See also:France and See also:Italy, and then went to See also:Antwerp, where he was elected into the See also:Academy in 1551. He finally settled at See also:Brussels and died there. The subjects of his pictures are chiefly humorous figures, like those of D. See also:Teniers; and if he wants the delicate See also:touch and silvery clearness of that See also:master, he has abundant spirit and comic See also:power. He is said to have died about the See also:year 1570 at the See also:age of sixty; other accounts give 1590 as the date of his See also:death. His son PIETER, the younger (1564–1637), known as " See also:Hell " Breughel, was See also:born in Brussels and died at Antwerp, where his " See also:Christ bearing the See also:Cross " is in the museum. Another son See also:JAN (c. 1569–1642), known as " See also:Velvet " Breughel, was born at Brussels. He first applied himself to painting See also:flowers and fruits, and afterwards acquired considerable reputation by his landscapes and See also:sea-pieces. After residing See also:long at See also:Cologne he travelled into Italy, where his landscapes, adorned with small figures, were greatly admired. He See also:left a large number of pictures, chiefly landscapes, which are executed with See also:great skill.

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