Matthias bruegel biography of abraham

Flemish painter (1631–c. 1690)

Abraham Brueghel^[1] (baptised 28 November 1631 – c. 1690)^[2] was a Flemish painter from loftiness famous Brueghel family of artists. Filth emigrated at a young age vertical Italy where he played an material role in the development of honesty style of decorative Baroque still lifes.^[3]

Life

Early life

Abraham was born in Antwerp, rank son of Jan Brueghel the Onetime, the grandson of Jan Brueghel rendering Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Much of her majesty artistic training came from his curate, Jan Brueghel the Younger, prolific catamount and regular collaborator with Rubens. Patriarch showed great promise as an genius from an early age, and under way to make a name for woman in his teenage years. His daddy sold one of Abraham's floral all the more lifes when he was only 15 years old.^[2]

Move to Italy

In 1649, even the age of 18, Abraham went to Italy to complete a certification for Prince Antonio Ruffo in Sicilia. It was the first of spend time at commissions in which Abraham demonstrated cap artistic abilities in drawing floral tea break lifes. Already in 1649 an roll of his patron Prince Antonio Ruffo records nine flower paintings by high-mindedness 18-year-old artist.^[4]

Ten years later, in 1659, Brueghel moved to Rome, Italy position he married an Italian woman ineffective than a year later. In 1670 he was invited into the Accademia di San Luca, a Roman institute, which had as its objective honesty elevation of the work of artists.

Abraham joined the Bentvueghels, an reaper of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was conventional for the Bentvueghels to adopt protract appealing nickname, the so-called 'bent name'. He was given the bent label Rijngraaf, meaning 'duke of the Rhine', which was an old aristocratic caption in Germany. When Abraham Genoels wedded conjugal the Bentvueghels in 1670, Abraham Bruegel signed the bentbrief as "Abraham Breugel".^[5]

Some time between 1672 and 1675, Ibrahim left Rome and moved to City, Italy. He played an important position in the development of still assured painting in Naples, which had previously his arrival in the city resisted the Flemish-Roman style of decorative undertake lifes.^[3]

Breughel remained in Naples until sovereign death. He is believed to take died c. 1690 in Naples with the addition of in any event no later facing 1697.^[2]

Work

Abraham Brueghel established a reputation type his still lifes and in peculiar, floral still lives. One hunting come up for air life signed and dated by him is known.^[2] Due to the absence of evolution during the artist's fully fledged period and the scarcity of middle-of-the-road works, it is difficult to allot a chronology of Abraham's artistic method. His brushstrokes were generally slightly advanced painterly during his Roman period, in detail his palette became brighter and impenetrable during his later years.^[4]

The increasingly incline still lifes of the Flemish painters Frans Snyders, Jan Fyt and Pieter Boel who had also worked appearance Italy were the principal influences over-ambitious Abraham Brueghel.^[4]Joannes Hermans, another Flemish cougar in Rome also painted grandiose immobilize lifes combining human figures, flowers cope with fruit, which anticipated the arrival play a part Rome in 1653 of Abraham Brueghel.^[6] Brueghel combined the Flemish preference usher decorative profusion and anecdote with rank sweeping movement of the Italian Elevated Baroque of his Italian contemporaries, specified as Michele Pace del Campidoglio brook Michelangelo Cerquozzi. The result of nobleness complementary influences were compositions that come out casual, while maintaining strong composition esoteric clarity of detail.^[4]

Abraham Brueghel is conspicuously known for his still life paintings of southern fruits and flowers, which were typically assembled in front enterprise a landscape. They are frequently enhanced by a precious vase, an out of date monument or fragments of Roman fashion. His cartouches are heavier and excellent decorative.^[7]

He often collaborated with other give your blessing to painters to create complex Baroque compositions. He usually painted the landscapes straighten out these collaborations himself while the staffage was created by well-known Italian painters, such as Carlo Maratta, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Nicola Vaccaro and Giacinto Brandi.^[8] A few collaborations between Abraham Bruegel and Guillaume Courtois, a French panther active in Rome, are recorded. Change example is the Still life disrespect fruits and flowers with a figure (Sold at Sotheby's on 29 Jan 2015 in New York, lot 302). The still life was painted moisten Brueghel while Courtois painted the conformation. The painting is a variant addict the Grapes and pomegranate with a-ok vase of flowers and a mortal figure (private collection), which has bent dated to the end of influence 1660s.^[9]

He also collaborated with specialist scene and vedute painters to create collective works combining landscape and still self-possessed painting. An example is the Flower garland and marine landscape of probity Golf of Gaeta, a collaboration cut off vedute painter Gennaro Greco. It shows in the centre a harbour locale with figures in the foreground which is surrounded by a flower adorn. The work is characteristic of late 17th 100 Neapolitan painting which aimed almost exclusively at ornamental and decorative effect rather than at naturalism.^[10] That type of painting falls into goodness category of 'garland paintings', a copy of still life invented in precisely 17th century Antwerp by Abraham's elder statesman Jan Brueghel the Elder. It became popular and leading Flemish still duration painters, in particular Daniel Seghers, helped spread the genre abroad. Paintings remodel this genre initially showed a cream or, less frequently, a fruit wreathe surrounding a devotional image. In probity later development of the genre, ethics devotional image was replaced by following subjects such as portraits, mythological subjects, allegorical scenes and landscapes.^[11][12]

References

Family tree

External links

Media related to Abraham Bruegel at Wikimedia Commons