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Jan Brueghel the Younger

Type Figure Region Netherlands Time 1601–1678 Also known as Jan Brueghel (the Younger)

Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678), Flemish Baroque painter, son of Jan Brueghel the Elder, ran a busy Antwerp workshop producing landscapes, flowe…

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  1. 1601–1622Antwerp · AntwerpBorn into the Brueghel artistic family in Antwerp, he learned fine landscape and flower painting under his father Jan Brueghel the Elder and inherited the workshop after his father's death in 1622.
  2. 1622–1626Milan · LombardyFrom 1622 to 1626 he traveled and studied in Italy, encountering Southern European landscape and religious painting traditions, and after returning home combined Flemish fine technique with Italian compositional experience.
  3. 1626–1678Antwerp · AntwerpAfter returning to Antwerp he headed the family workshop, joined the Guild of Saint Luke in the 1630s, and produced large numbers of landscapes, flower pieces, and collaborations with Rubens, Van Dyck, and others, dying in Antwerp in 1678.

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