Gillis Backereel, (or Bakereel,) who was born at Antwerp in 1572, studied in Italy and then returned to his native city, the churches of which formerly possessed a number of his works. In the Brussels Museum are an 'Adoration of the Shepherds,' and the 'Vision of St. Felix,' and in the Vienna Gallery a 'Hero mourning Leander.' Backereel's name is also frequently distorted into Baccarelles, Bakanel, Baccarelli, Bacareel, and Bakkarell. The date of his death is not recorded.
This article incorporates text from the article "BACKEREEL, Gilles" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.