Philips Brueghel
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. Life Brueghel was born in Antwerp where he was baptised on 24 December 1635. He was the second son of Jan Brueghel the Younger and Anna-Maria Janssens. His mother was the daughter of the Antwerp history painter Abraham Janssens. 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. Philips' brothers Jan Pieter, Abraham Brueghel, Ferdinand and Jan Baptist Brueghel also became successful artists. He trained in the family workshop and joined in the guild year 1654-1655 the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke as a 'wijnmeester', i.e. the son of a master. He continued to work in the family workshop and was sent