Flemish painter (bc1568, Bruxelles, d. 1625, Antwerpen).   Related Paintings of BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder :. | Still-Life with Garland of Flowers and Golden Tazza fdg | Bodycolour on vellum | Garden of Eden 1612 Oil on copper | Bouquet fu | Rest on the Flight to Egypt, detail |
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Jan de Bray
1627-1697 Dutch Painter, draughtsman and etcher, son of (1) Salomon de Bray. He spent virtually the whole of his career in Haarlem, except for the period 1686-8, when he lived in Amsterdam. After training with his father, Jan began working as a portrait painter in Haarlem in 1650, an activity he continued for the next 40 years. Between 1667 and 1684 he served on the committee for the Haarlem Guild of St Luke, whose leading members he portrayed in a picture dated 1675 (Amsterdam, Rijksmus.) that includes a self-portrait (Jan is seen standing and drawing on the left). He married three times, in 1668, 1670 and 1672. His first two wives died a year after their marriage, his third two years afterwards, and in each case the death was followed by disputes over the inheritance. Jan bankruptcy of 1689 may have been a result of one of the lawsuits. He was 62 at the time, and from then onwards he seems to have lost his artistic drive, crushed by the financial blow and the consequent loss of social position.
Paul Buffet
French, 1864-1941
Samuel Palmer,OWS
1805-1881