- Abraham Brueghel
Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous family of artists. He was the son of
Jan Brueghel the Younger , the grandson ofJan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson ofPieter Brueghel the Elder .Family Tree
Early life
Abraham was born in Antwerp, where he spent most of his youth. Much of his artistic training came from his father,
Jan Brueghel the Younger . Abraham showed great promise as an artist from an early age, and started to make a name for himself in his teenage years.Life as an Artist
In 1649, at the age of 18, Abraham went to
Italy to serve under commission for PrinceAntonio Ruffio ofSicily . It was the first of many commissions in which Abraham demonstrated his artistic abilities in drawing floral still lifes.Ten years later, in 1659, Brueghel moved to Rome, Italy and married an Italian woman less than a year later. He continued painting portraits of objects in nature, and in 1670 he was invited into the
Accademia di San Luca , a Roman academy designated for giving a higher level of education for artists.A year later, Abraham moved to
Naples, Italy , where he remained until his death in 1690.ee also
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List of Belgian painters External links
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