Pieter van Bredael

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Pieter van Bredael (1629 –1719) was a Flemish painter.

Life

Pieter van Bredael in Het Gulden Cabinet
Italianate landscape of market square

He was born at Antwerp in 1629,[1] and entered the Guild of St. Luke there in 1650. It is not said under whom he learned the art, but he worked in the style of Jan Brueghel, painting small landscapes, with figures neatly touched and well coloured. He spent some time in Spain, where his pictures were much admired.[2] The inclusion in his landscapes of ruins of architecture from the environs of Rome indicates that he probably visited Italy. [3] He died at Antwerp in 1719. The four works attributed to him in the Vienna Gallery are stated to be by another painter. Two Italian landscapes with figures by him are in the Academy at Bruges, and one is in the Hague Gallery.[4]

Hendrik Frans van Lint and Ferdinandus Hofmans were his pupils, as was his son Joris van Bredael.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peeter van Bredael in the RKD
  2. ↑ Het Gulden Cabinet, p 381
  3. ↑ (Dutch) Peter van Breda Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  4. ↑ Bryan,1886-9

This article incorporates text from the article "BREDAEL, Pieter van" 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.

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