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Jan Brueghel the Elder (ca 1568 - 1625).Flemish painter. |
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Short biography from the Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder. |
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The Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder born in Brussels, 1568. A landscape and flower artist. His grandmother, the miniaturist painter Mayken Verhulst Bessemers gave him the first lessons. After that he had some different teachers as Gillis van Coninxloo and Pieter Goetkint. Jan Breughel the Elder went to Italy in 1589. He stayed in Rome, Naples and finished in Milan where he worked for Federigo Borromeo, a Cardinal. He traveled to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1597. We know in 1604 Jan Brueghel moved to Czech. In 1613 he traveled together with Rubens and Hendrick van Balen back to the Netherlands. Jan Brueghel was a respected painter, had a great collection of art and was the owner of a few houses in Belgium. The Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder died from cholera in 1625, Antwerp. |
The Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder. |
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