Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Type Figure Region Netherlands Time c. 1525–1569 Also known as Bruegel、Peasant Bruegel

One of the greatest painters of the Netherlandish Renaissance, who pioneered a new paradigm in Flemish painting through genre and landscape works.…

Timeline

c. 1530–1550Antwerp · BrabantAround the 1540s he went to Antwerp to study, joined the painters' guild in 1551, and trained under Pieter Coecke van Aelst. His early work focused on prints and small landscape pieces, absorbing the tradition of Bosch while turning toward realistic genre subjects.
1550–1569Brussels · BrabantFrom the 1550s he created masterpieces such as Netherlandish Proverbs and the Tower of Babel, moved to Brussels in 1563, and completed the Months series and Hunters in the Snow in 1565, establishing the classic paradigm of Flemish painting through common scenes and grand landscapes.

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Pieter Bruegel the Elder https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pieter-Bruegel-the-Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints — Nina Eugenia Serebrennikov (2001)