Philips Brueghel was a Flemish painter and printmaker. He painted still lifes, history paintings and landscapes. A scion of the famous Brueghel family of painters, he trained in Antwerp with his father and later worked for some time in Paris.Philips Brueghel
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life

Brueghel was born in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

where he was baptised on 24 December 1635. He was the second son of Jan Brueghel the Younger and Anna-Maria Janssens.Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (eds.), ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde''
Volume 2, Antwerp, 1864, p. 260 His mother was the daughter of the Antwerp history painter

Abraham Janssens Abraham Janssens I, Abraham Janssen I or Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen (1575–1632) was a Flemish painter, who is known principally for his large religious and mythological works, which show the influence of Caravaggio. He was the leading histor ...

.Jan Brueghel (II)
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History His father was the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder, who was one of the most important creative forces in early 17th century Antwerp, a prolific painter in many genres and a frequent collaborator of Rubens. His father had taken over the large workshop of Jan the Elder on his death in 1625 and continued its large output of biblical, mythological, allegorical, genre and still life paintings.Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen; with contributions by Tiarna Doherty, Mark Leonard, and Jørgen Wadum, ''Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendshvip'', 2006, pp. 156–165 Philips' brothers Jan Pieter,

Abraham Brueghel Abraham Brueghel (baptised 28 November 1631 – c. 1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists. He emigrated at a young age to Italy where he played an important role in the development of the style of decorative Baroq ...

, Ferdinand and

Jan Baptist Brueghel Jan Baptist Brueghel (baptised 26 December 1647 – 1719) was a Flemish Baroque flower painter. Biography Brueghel was born in Antwerp. He travelled to Rome where he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists ...

also became successful artists. Philips Brueghel - Fall of Phaethon

He trained in the family workshop and joined in the guild year 1654-1655 the Antwerp

Guild of St. Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Four Evangelists, Evangelist Saint Luke, Luke, the patron sa ...

as a 'wijnmeester', i.e. the son of a master. He continued to work in the family workshop and was sent to work in Paris in the period from 1658 to 1661. Here he lived with his uncle Jan Valdor, the husband of his mother's sister Catherine Janssens. Philips' father had signed a contract for him to work for three years for Valdor for a period of three years. He returned to Antwerp and is mentioned the last time in Antwerp in 1662. Philips must have died before 1678 as he is not mentioned as an heir when his father died that year.

Work

Very few works of Brueghel are known. He is believed to be the painter of the ''Fall of Phaethon'' signed 'P Breughel' ( Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe). A still life of ''Pike, Barbel and other Fish in a Bowl, Celery, Radishes, Pumpkins, Melons and a Basket of Fruit by a Stone Wall'' ( McMaster Museum of Art) signed 'PHILVPS BREVGHEL' shows a more original approach than that of his painting brothers, who had mainly remained flower painters. This work is reminiscent of the work of

Peter van Boucle Peter van BoucleName variations: Peter van Boeckel, Pieter van Boeckel, Pierre van Boucle, Pieter van Boeckel, Pieter van Bouck, Pieter van Boucle, Pieter van Bouck, Pieter Boucle, Pierre van Boucle (between 1600 en 1610 (?), probably Antwerp - 1 ...

and other Flemish painters active in Paris.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brueghel, Philips 1628 births Flemish Baroque painters Flemish still life painters Flemish history painters Flemish printmakers Artists from Antwerp Painters from Antwerp Flower artists philips Sibling artists