Discover print artist, painter, draftsperson Jan Brueghel (I)

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: Bruegel, Jan (I)
Brueghel, Hans
Fluwelen Brueghel, de
Brueghel was nicknamed 'Velvet' for the finesse of the textures he painted. For more about the spelling of his name, see: exh. cat. Essen/Wenen/Antwerpen 1997-1998, p. 10, 15

Qualifications: print artist, painter, draftsperson, court painter, staffage painter

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish (school)

Born: Brussels 1568
Saur 1996

Deceased: Antwerp (city) 1625-01-13
died of cholera (Saur 1996); he was buried in St. George's Church next to the altar of the Holy Cross with his portrait painted by Peter Paul Rubens as an epitaph (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol. 1, p. 397, note 3)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: third son of Pieter Brueghel I and Mayken Coecke (died 1587), brother of Pieter II. Married 1) in Antwerp on 23 January 1599in Antwerp Cathedral Isabella de Jode and 2) in Antwerp in April 1605 in Antwerp Cathedral Catharina van Mariënburg (died 15 July 1627), father of Catharina, Ambrosius, Anna Clara Eugenia and Jan II (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol. 1, p. 397, note 3)

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Jan Brueghel painted animals and landscapes; Rubens and Van Balen painted figures in his paintings, after he had done his work (Saur 1996).

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683 hits in RKDimages as artist
1 hit in RKDimages as provenance
74 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
6024 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
57 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Antwerpen (stad) 1578
After the death of his mother, his grandmother Mayken Verhulst (widow of Pieter Coecke van Aelst) took care of him and the other grandchildren; she took them to Antwerp and taught them to paint in tempera; he learned to paint with oil from Peeter Goetkint.
Heidelberg 1588 - 1589
drawing of Heidelberg in The Met, New York (RKDimages 298374), to be dated c. 1588-1589, when he was on his way from Antwerpen to Italy (website The Met, accessed August 2020)
Napels 1590
Saur 1996
Rome 1592 - 1594
with Paul Bril, Hans Rottenhammer and Federico Borromeo (Saur 1996); in Rome 1593/4 according to Noack 1927. In 1593 he inscribed his name in the catacombes of Domitilla (Hensen 1916)
Florence
probably stayed in Florence and Orvieto (not documented)
Orvieto
probably stayed in Florence and Orvieto (not documented)
Milaan 1596-05-30
documented in Milan 30 May 1596 (Saur 1996)
Antwerpen (stad) 1596-10-10 - 1601
‘wijnmeester’ (son of a master) in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp in 1597; member of the Romanists in 1599, dean of this fraternity in 1609; citizen of Antwerp on 4 October 1601 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961); documented in Antwerp on 10 October 1596. After that he made short journeys and also worked in Brussels, to return to Antwerp again and again (Saur 1996).
Brussel
Antwerpen (stad)
Praag 1604
in the summer of 1604 (Saur 1996)
Brussel 1606 - 1613
listed as residing in Brussels in 1606, 1609, 1610 and 1613; working for the court (Saur 1996)
Spa 1612
Brueghel might have met Remigio Cantagallina in Spa in August 1612 (Loze et al. 2017, p. 130).
Nederland 1613
traveled together with Rubens and Hendrick van Balen (Saur 1996 and Vermeylen/ De Clippel 2012

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Seghers, Daniël
Wael, Lucas de
Follower of: Baltens, Peeter
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Avont, Pieter van
Balen, Jan van
Beschey, Balthasar
Beschey, Carel
Beschey, Jan Frans
Boets, J.
Bout, Pieter
Bouttats, Jacob
Bredael, Jan Peeter van (I)
Bredael, Jan Pieter van (II)
Bredael, Joseph van
Breydel, Karel
Brueghel, U.
Gijsels, Peeter
Govaerts, Abraham
Hartmann, Johann Jakob
Hoet, J.H.
Hoet, M.J.
Hondt, Lambert de (II)
Kessel, Ferdinand van (I)
Kessel, Jan van (I)
Kobell, Wilhelm von
Master of the Rosenborg Biblical Scenes
Michau, Theobald
Monteyne, J.B.
Noble, James
Oosten, Izaak van
Pseudo-Bosschaert
Racovier, J.
Savery, Roelant
Stalbemt, Adriaen van
Venne, Adriaen van de
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Bettini, Domenico
Graff, Johann Andreas
Guesche, Peter
Martin, Andreas
Mirou, Anton
Molanus, Mattheus Adolfsz.
Niedenthal, Samuel
Rijckaert, Marten
Saftleven, Herman
Pijman, Hindrick

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, history (genre), landscape (genre), still life, animal painting (genre), winter landscape, portrait, flower piece, architecture (genre), fruit piece
he is the central figure in the popularization of floral still lifes in the Southern and Northern Netherlands around 1605; according to his own writings from 1611 he did not allow anyone to cooperate with his floral still lifes; until now it remains difficult to distinguish between the work of father Jan (I) and son Jan (II) (Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003, p. 54)

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Sint-Lucasgilde (Antwerpen)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 74 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 85-87, p. 147; vol. 2 (1719), p. 131, 140, 303; vol. 3 (1721), p. 53, 278 (as: Joan Breugel, bygenaamt den Fluweelen)
Pinchart 1860 , passim
Antwerp 1857/1863 , supplement (1863), p. 20-34
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 1, passim; vol. 2, p. 166, 263, 418 (vol. 1 as: Jan Brueghel, de Fluweele (p. 175); as: Hans Breugel (Brueghel, de fluweele, schilder (p. 297); as: Johannes Breugel (Brueghel) (p. 416); as: Jan Breugel (Brueghel) (p. 418); as: Joannes Breugel (Brueghel I, schilder) (p. 477); as: Jan Breugel (Brueghel I, schilder) (p. 480 en p. 483); as: Jan van Breughel (Brueghel I, schilder) (p. 539); as: Joan Breughel (Brueghel, de fluweele) (p. 581); as: Jan Brueghel, de fluweele (p. 586); as: Jan Brueghel, gezegd de Fluweele (p. 631); as: Hans Bruegel (den fluweele, schilder) (p. 639) vol. 2 as: Jean Breughel, de velours (p. 166); as: Jan Breugel (p. 263); as: den fluweelen (Jan) Brueghel (p. 418))
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 203-206 (as: Jan Breughel I.)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 5 (1911), p. 98-99 (als Bruegel, Jan, d. Ä)
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 108
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 3 [1950], p. 251-252 (as: Jan Brueghel the Elder)
Van Gelder/Van Hasselt/Blankert 1966 , p. 31-36
Bodart 1970 , vol. 1, p. 244-249
Martin 1970 (Flemish School) , p. 12-13
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 1, p. 332ff., no 198 (testimony); vol. 3 (1987), p. 149-151 (666) [inventory of his home at the death of his widow]; vol. 4 (1989), p. 459-460, no. 1177
Saur 1992- , vol. 14 (1996), p. 482ff. (als Brueghel (Bruegel), Jan, d. Ä)
Dacos/Meijer et al. 1995 , p. 117-129
Huys Janssen 2001 , passim
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 53-54
Loze et al. 2017 , p. 130
Stoesser 2018 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

Th. von Frimmel, 'Ein Exemplar der Brueghelschen Komposition: Besuch auf dem Pachthofe (Wien, Sammlung Figdor)', Blätter für Gemäldekunde, 3/7 (1907), p. 129
A.H.L. Hensen, ‘Nederlanders op het eind der zestiende eeuw in de catacombe van Domitilla’, De katholiek: godsdienstig, geschied- en letterkundig maandschrift 149 (1916), p. 410-423, esp. p. 420, 422
J. Denucé, Brieven betreffende Jan Brueghel I en II, Antwerp 1934
F. Klauner, 'Zur Landschaft Jan Brueghels D. Ä.', Nationalmusei Årsbok 1949-1950, p. 6-28
H.G. Franz, 'Das niederländische Waldbild und seine Entstehung im 16. Jahrhundert', Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique/Bulletin der Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België 17 (1968), p. 15-38
H.G. Franz, 'Meister der spätmanieristischen Landschaftsmalerei in den Niederlanden', Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Institutes der Universität Graz 3/4 (1968-1969), p. 19-71 & pl. I-LVI
J. De Coo, 'Verscholen Antwerps stadsbeeld bij Jan Brueghel I en bij Hans Vredeman de Vries', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1970, p. 121-131
R. Genaille, '"Naer den ouden Bruegel", la rixe de paysans', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1980, p. 61-97
R. Genaille, 'Le "Dénombrement de Bethléem" et la persistance des goûts anversois chez Bruegel l'Ancien', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1981, p. 61-95
J. Vander Auwera, 'Sebastiaen Vrancx (1573-1647) en zijn samenwerking met Jan I Brueghel (1568-1625)', P. Vandenbroeck, 'Het schildersgeslacht Verbeeck. Voorlopige werkkataloog', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1981, p. 135-151 (French résumé)
R. Genaille, 'Carel van Mander et la jeunesse de Bruegel l'Ancien', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1982, p. 119-151
A. Monballieu, 'Hoog geprezen, hoog geprijsd: het "Gezicht van Schelle" met zelfportret (1614) van Jan Brueghel I', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1982, p. 153-164
B. Brenninkmeyer-de Rooij, 'Zeldzame bloemen, "Fatta tutti del natturel"door Jan Brueghel I', Oud Holland 104 (1990), p. 218-248
V. Pliego de Andes, 'Musica y retórica en "La Alegoría del oído" de Jan Brueghel "de Velours" y Rubens', Archivo Español de Arte 279 (1997), p. 319-328
C. van Mulders, 'Peter Paul Rubens en Jan Brueghel de Oude: de drijfveren van hun samenwerking', in: H. Vlieghe, A. Balis, C. van de Velde (eds), 'Concept, Design & Execution in Flemish Painting (1550-1700), Turnhout 2000, p. 111-126
S.D. Muller, 'Nature's rivals: the Brueghels', in: S.D. Muller (ed.), The Val A. Browning collection: a selection of old master paintings, Salt Lake City (The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah) 2001, p. 62-93
D. Tamis, '"In kompagnie geordonneert en geschildert". Een onderzoek naar de ontstaansgeschiedenis van het "Aardse Paradijs" van Peter Paul Rubens en Jan Brueghel d.O.', Oud Holland 115 (2001-'02), p. 111-130
L. Pijl, 'Jan Brueghel the Elder in Italy: some new attributions', in: A.W.A. Boschloo et al., "Aux quatre vents" A Festschrift for Bert W. Meijer, Florence 2002, p. 275-278
L.C. Cutler, 'Virtue and diligence. Jan Brueghel I and Federico Borromeo', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 54 (2003), p. 203-227
Th. Fusenig, 'Wechselwirkungen - Jan Brueghel d. Ä. und Paul Vredeman de Vries', Weltkunst 73 (2003), p. 870-872
E. Honig, 'Paradise Regained. Rubens, Jan Brueghel, and the Sociability of Visual Thought', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 55 (2004), p. 270-301
K. de Jonge, 'Mariemont, "Château de chasse" de Marie de Hongrie', Revue de l'Art 149 (2005) no. 3, p. 45-57, afb. 2-4
C. Van Mulders, 'De "Ontwapening van Mars door Venus", een samenwerking tussen Jan Brueghel de Oude en Peter Paul Rubens', in: A. Balis et al., Florissant. Bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis der Nederlanden (15de-17de eeuw). Liber Amicorum Carl van de Velde, Brussels 2005, p. 285-303
M. Winner, 'Jan Brueghel der Ä. Weg auf dem Deichwall mit Bauernhaus', in: In Arte Venustas. Studies on drawings in honour of Térez Gerszi, Budapest 2007, p. 107-109
T. Gerszi, 'A jointly executed work by Pieter de Jode I and Jan Breughel I', Master Drawings 47 (2009), p. 468-473
M. Rikken, P.J. Smith, 'Jan Brueghel's Allegory of air (1621) from a natural historical perspective', Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 61 (2011), p. 86-115
F. Vermeylen and K. De Clippel, ‘Rubens and Goltzius in dialogue. Artistic exchanges between Antwerp and Haarlem during the Revolt’, De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief 28 (2012), p. 138–160
T. Gerszi, 'Were the Rotterdam copies really drawn after Jan Brueghel?', in: Ch. Dumas et al. (eds.), Liber Amicorum Marijke de Kinkelder. Collegiale bijdragen over landschappen, marines en architectuur, Den Haag 2013, p. 141-146
K. de Clippel and D. van der Linden, 'The genesis of the Netherlandish flower piece: Jan Brueghel, Ambrosius Bosschaert and Middelburg', Simiolus 38 (2015), p. 73-86
B. Toth, 'An early representation of Don Quixote from the circle of Jan Brueghel the Elder’, Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts (2014), no. 119, p. 127-138
R. Spence, 'Tracing the Bruegel family tree', Art Quarterley (Spring 2017), p. 48-55
I. Buchanan, Review of 'Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale by E.A. Honig', The Burlington Magazine 160 (2018) no. 1379, p. 161

Chr. Van Mulders, Een analyse van de creatieve process (sic) in het oeuvre van P.P. Rubens in samenwerking met Brueghel I en II, diss. in preparation, Brussels, Vrije Universiteit, prof. Van de Velde (source: Kunstchronik 9/10 (2003), p. 536)
L. Prosperetti, Jan Brueghel and the landscape of devotion: spiritual reform and landscape subjects in Antwerp painting between 1595 and 1625, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, W. Melion (source: website HNA)

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