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Pieter van Bredael or Peeter van Bredael (1629–1719) was a Flemish painter specializing in market scenes and village feasts set in Italianate landscapes or contemporary, usually, urban environments.
Pieter van Bredael was born in Antwerp in 1629 and was baptised on 19 July 1629 as the son of Peter and Maria Pais. He reportedly joined the workshop of David Ryckaert III on 20 January 1640 and studied there for four years. He undertook several travels abroad. It is known he travelled to Spain.''Peter van Bredael'' in: Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 1629–1631 Although there is no evidence for a stay in Italy, the inclusion in his landscapes of ruins of architecture from the environs of Rome points to a possible visit to Italy.Peter van Breda Biography
in: Arnold Houbraken, ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'', 1718 Armelle Baron, Pierre Baron, L'art dentaire à travers la peinture, www.acr-edition.com, 1 Jan 1986, p. 232 Upon his return to Antwerp in 1648 he married Anna Maria Veldener, the daughter of the prominent sculptor Jenijn Veldener. The couple had eight children of whom three, Jan Peeter,
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at the vads He died in Antwerp where he was buried on 9 March 1719.
Pieter van Bredael is mainly known for his scenes of Roman cattle markets amidst a landscape of buildings, often ruins from Antiquity, Italian pastoral landscapes and less often battle pieces. He also depicted genre scenes such as village festivals, processions and a '' commedia dell’arte'' scene. Van Bredael's very imaginative market scenes succeeded in illustrating various aspects of everyday town life. Van Bredael was often influenced by Italian architectural forms.
He worked as a copyist and is known to have copied battle scenes of the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman. A drawing of an ''Equestrian Battle'' in the Mauritshuis has been attributed to van Bredael as being a copy after Wouwerman.Annemarie Stefes , ''Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1800: Tafeln'', Böhlau Verlag, Köln Weimar, 2011, p. 140
Pieter van Bredael or Peeter van Bredael (1629–1719) was a Flemish painter specializing in market scenes and village feasts set in Italianate landscapes or contemporary, usually, urban environments.
Life
Pieter van Bredael was born in Antwerp in 1629 and was baptised on 19 July 1629 as the son of Peter and Maria Pais. He reportedly joined the workshop of David Ryckaert III on 20 January 1640 and studied there for four years. He undertook several travels abroad. It is known he travelled to Spain.''Peter van Bredael'' in: Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 1629–1631 Although there is no evidence for a stay in Italy, the inclusion in his landscapes of ruins of architecture from the environs of Rome points to a possible visit to Italy.Peter van Breda Biographyin: Arnold Houbraken, ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'', 1718 Armelle Baron, Pierre Baron, L'art dentaire à travers la peinture, www.acr-edition.com, 1 Jan 1986, p. 232 Upon his return to Antwerp in 1648 he married Anna Maria Veldener, the daughter of the prominent sculptor Jenijn Veldener. The couple had eight children of whom three, Jan Peeter,
Alexander
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
and Joris became painters.Walther Bernt, ''The Netherlandish painters of the seventeenth century, Volume 1'', Phaidon, 1970, p. 19 Several of his grandchildren such as Joseph van Bredael, Jan Pieter van Bredael the Younger and Jan Frans van Bredael were also painters.
Van Bredael likely did not start working for his own account until 1651, the year in which he became a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint 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 Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was ide ...
. He also joined a schutterij
Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...
, a local civil militia, and obtained the rank of captain.
His pupils included his sons Jan Peeter, Joris and Alexander, Hendrik Frans van Lint
Hendrik Frans van Lint (1684 – 24 September 1763) was a Flemish landscape and ''vedute'' painter who was part of the group of Flemish and Dutch painters active in Rome. He was one of the leading landscape painters in Rome in the first half ...
and Ferdinandus Hofmans.Peeter van Bredaelat the
Netherlands Institute for Art History
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
Alexander van Bredael, ''Cattle Market in Antwerp''at the vads He died in Antwerp where he was buried on 9 March 1719.
Work
Pieter van Bredael is mainly known for his scenes of Roman cattle markets amidst a landscape of buildings, often ruins from Antiquity, Italian pastoral landscapes and less often battle pieces. He also depicted genre scenes such as village festivals, processions and a '' commedia dell’arte'' scene. Van Bredael's very imaginative market scenes succeeded in illustrating various aspects of everyday town life. Van Bredael was often influenced by Italian architectural forms.
He worked as a copyist and is known to have copied battle scenes of the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman. A drawing of an ''Equestrian Battle'' in the Mauritshuis has been attributed to van Bredael as being a copy after Wouwerman.Annemarie Stefes , ''Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1800: Tafeln'', Böhlau Verlag, Köln Weimar, 2011, p. 140
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bredael, Pieter van 1629 births 1719 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish genre painters Flemish landscape painters Painters from Antwerp