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 a River (1624), four others, National Museum, Amsterdam; Christ and the Magdalen, Rotterdam Museum; The Flood, six others, Cassel Gallery; four in Brunswick Museum; Forge of Vulcan (figures by Van Balen), Feast of Bacchus (figures by Rottenhammer), St. Hubert (figures by Rubens), The Paradise, Still life, Berlin Museum; Landscapes (dated 1604, 1605 (3), 1608 (3), 1611 (2), 1612, 1613), twenty-two others, Dresden Gallery; Flora (figures by Rubens), Landscapes (1598, 1599, 1609, 1610, 1612, 1615, 1616, 1620), eighteen others, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Adoration of the Magi (1598), The Four Elements (1604, figures by Rottenhammer), Bouquet (1625), four others, Vienna Museum; Landscapes (7), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Christ on Lake Genesareth (1595), Landscapes with Hermits (1595, 1596, 1597), Abundance (1605), Bouquet (1608), Daniel in Lion's Den (1608), Fire and Water (1610, 1611), Ambrosiana, Milan. His son Ambrosius (born Aug. 10, 1617, died Feb. 9, 1675), was a distinguished flower painter; pupil of his brother Jan, the younger.—Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 403; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 26; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 304; Dohme, 1i.; J. van der Kellen, i. 220; Michiel, v. 351; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 40; Rooses (Reber), 127.

BRUEGHEL, JAN, the younger, born in Antwerp, baptized Sept. 13, 1601, died after 1677. Flemish school; son and pupil of Velvet Brueghel; went to Italy in 1622, returned in 1625, little influenced by Italian art. Like his father, he remained essentially Flemish. He was for a long time unjustly ignored, as many of his pictures were attributed to his father. Rubens, Van Diepenbeeck, Van Tulden, and Van Balen often supplied the figures in his landscapes. Works: Halt in front of an Inn (1641), Landscape, Tower on Seashore (1642), Dresden Gallery.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 34; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Dohme, 1i.; Michiels, v. 370.

BRUEGHEL, PEETER, the elder, called Boeren (Peasant) Brueghel, born at Brueghel, near Breda, about 1525-1530, died in Brussels about 1570. Flemish school; pupil of Pieter Koeck van Aalst, and of Hieronymus Cock, and greatly influenced by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, whose subjects he imitated; became master of the guild in Antwerp in 1551, and shortly after went to Italy; after his return lived at Antwerp until 1563, then settled at Brussels. Painted chiefly scenes from peasant life, which he treated from a realistic and humorous point of view, not always avoiding coarseness; also some scriptural subjects and ghost and incantation scenes, in the manner of Bosch. Left a great number of masterly drawings, and some etchings made on his travels. Works: Triumph of Death, Madrid Museum; Landscape, Village Dance, Louvre, Paris; Job on his Dunghill, Douai Museum; Village Feast, Nancy Museum; Massacre of the Innocents, Brussels Museum; Christ on Lake Genesareth, Seaport, two Landscapes, Cassel Gallery; St. John preaching, Basle Museum; do., and Peasants' Frolic, Old Pinakothek, Munich; do., and Peasants' Brawl, Dresden Gallery; Contest between Carnival and Lent (1559), Children's Frolic (1560), Massacre of the Innocents, Christ bearing the Cross (1563), Tower of Babel (1563), four others, Museum, Vienna; St. John preaching, Dance of Death, The Blind leading the Blind, and others, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; The Blind leading the Blind (1568), Naples Museum; Christ bearing his Cross, Uffizi, Florence.—Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 400; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 19; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Dohme, 1i.; Michiels, v. 321; Rooses (Reber), 75.