Art, literature & historyAbraham Brueghel
1631–1690
Selected artwork
Bunches of Grapes, Pomegranates and Figs in a Landscape
1670
Rijksmuseum
Other names (52)
Abbram Brughel, Abraam Brucolo, Abraham Breugel, Abraham Breughel, abraham breughel gen. rhyngraf, Abraham Briegel, Abraham Brucoli, Abraham Bruegel, Abraham Brüghel, Abraham Brughen, Abraham Rijngraaf, Abraham Ryngraaf, Abraham von Brughel, Abram, Abram Brogola, Abram Brucchel, Abram Brucel, Abram Bruchel, Abram Brucoli, Abram Brughel, Abram Brugher, Abram Bughel, Abramo Breughel, Abramo Brucel, Abramo Brucheel, Abramo Bruchel, Abramo Brucoli, Abramo Brughel, A. Breughel, Abrham Brughen, ambros. brueghel, Ambrosius Breughel, Ambrosius Bruegel, ambrosius brueghel, Breugel de Napels, Breugel le Napolitain, Brugnoli, Den Napelsche Breugel, den Napelschen Breugel, figlio di Brucoli, gen. Rhyngraf, oder der Neapolitaner Abraham Breughel, il Napolitano Brueghel, monsieur Abramo, Monsieur Abramo Brugel, Mons.r Abraam Brughel, Rijngraaf, Rijngraaf Breugel, Rijngraaf Breughel, Rijngraaf Bruegel, Rijngraaf Brueghel, Ringraaf, Ryngraaf
Biography
Abraham Brueghel (baptised 28 November 1631 – c. 1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists. He emigrated at a young age to Italy where he played an important role in the development of the style of decorative Baroque still lifes.
Abraham was born in Antwerp, the son of Jan Brueghel the Younger, the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Much of his artistic training came from his father, Jan Brueghel the Younger, a prolific painter and regular collaborator with Rubens. Abraham showed great promise as an artist from an early age, and started to make a name for himself in his teenage years. His father sold one of Abraham's floral still lifes when he was only 15 years old.
In 1649, at the age of 18, Abraham went to Italy to complete a commission for Prince Antonio Ruffo in Sicily. It was the first of many commissions in which Abraham demonstrated his artistic abilities as a floral still life painter. Already in 1649 an inventory of his patron Prince Antonio Ruffo records nine flower paintings by the 18-year-old artist.
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- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux2 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum1 recorded work