Pieter Van Bredael - Artist Info

About Pieter Van Bredael

Name variants

Peeter Van Bredel, Peeter van Bredal
  • Biography

    Peeter van Bredael (1629-1719) was a Flemish painter from Antwerp. It is known that van Bredael worked in the studio of his countryman David Rijckaert III and that he traveled a lot among others to Spain. Presumably he made a journey to Italy as well, which is not documented but it seems probable due to the subjects he chose.

    The artist was the founder a family of painters, since several children and grandchildren became painters too. Van Bredael primarily painted sceneries with markets and village fairs situated in a south European landscape, genre and occasionally battle scenes. (msc)...

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