Pieter Bruegel II, the Younger

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Pieter Bruegel II, the Younger

Flemish artist

Also known as: Hell Breughel, Hell Bruegel, Hell Brueghel, Helse Breughel, Helse Bruegel, Helse Brueghel, Pieter Breughel, Pieter Breughel II de Jongere, Pieter Breughel II the Younger, Pieter Bruegel II de Jongere, Pieter Brueghel, Pieter Brueghel II de Jongere

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Byname:: Hell Bruegel

Dutch:: Pieter Bruegel Ii De Jongere, orHelse Bruegel, Bruegel

Also spelled:: Brueghel, orBreughel

Born:: 1564, Brussels [now in Belgium]

Died:: 1638, Antwerp (aged 74)

Pieter Bruegel II, the Younger (born 1564, Brussels [now in Belgium]—died 1638, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter of rustic and religious scenes and of visions of hell or Hades.

The eldest son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the young Pieter studied first under his grandmother, the miniaturist Maria Verhulst, and then in Antwerp. He painted largely in the manner of his father and even copied many of his works; some of his copies cannot be distinguished from copies made by others. Notable examples of his works are “The Abduction of Proserpina,” “Census at Bethlehem,” “Attack on a Snow-Covered Village,” “Crucifixion,” and “Aeneas in the Underworld.” His son Pieter Bruegel III, Frans Snyders, and Gonzales Coques were among his pupils.

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