
Pieter van Bredael or Peeter van Bredael (1629–1719) was a Flemish painter specializing in market scenes and village feasts set in Italianate landscapes or contemporary, usually, urban environments.
Life

Pieter van Bredael was born in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, in 1629 and was baptised on 19 July 1629 as the son of Peter and Maria Pais. He reportedly joined the workshop of
David Ryckaert III on 20 January 1640 and studied there for four years. He undertook several travels abroad. It is known he travelled to Spain.
[''Peter van Bredael'' in: Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 1629–1631 ] Although there is no evidence for a stay in Italy, the inclusion in his landscapes of ruins of architecture from the environs of Rome points to a possible visit to Italy.
[Peter van Breda Biography]
in: Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'', 1718 [Armelle Baron, Pierre Baron, L'art dentaire à travers la peinture, www.acr-edition.com, 1 Jan 1986, p. 232 ]
Upon his return to Antwerp in 1648 he married Anna Maria Veldener, the daughter of the prominent sculptor Jenijn Veldener.
[ The couple had eight children of whom three, Jan Peeter, Alexander and ]Joris Joris, a Dutch form of the given name George, may refer to:
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became painters.[Walther Bernt, ''The Netherlandish painters of the seventeenth century, Volume 1'', Phaidon, 1970, p. 19] Several of his grandchildren such as Joseph van Bredael
Jozef van Bredael, Joseph van Bredael, or Josef van Bredael (14 August 1688 – 2 April 1739) was a Flemish painter known for Italianate landscapes and genre scenes of fairs, cattle markets and villages. He worked in his final years in France. , were also painters.[
Van Bredael likely did not start working for his own account until 1651, the year in which he became a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. He also joined a schutterij, a local civil militia, and obtained the rank of captain.][
His pupils included his sons Jan Peeter, Joris and Alexander, Hendrik Frans van Lint and Ferdinandus Hofmans.][Peeter van Bredael]
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History [Alexander van Bredael, ''Cattle Market in Antwerp'']
at the vads
He died in Antwerp where he was buried on 9 March 1719.[
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Work
Pieter van Bredael is mainly known for his scenes of Roman cattle markets amidst a landscape of buildings, often ruins from Antiquity, Italian pastoral landscapes and less often battle pieces.[ He also depicted genre scenes such as village festivals, processions and a '' commedia dell’arte'' scene. Van Bredael's very imaginative market scenes succeeded in illustrating various aspects of everyday town life. Van Bredael was often influenced by Italian architectural forms.
He worked as a copyist and is known to have copied battle scenes of the Dutch painter ]Philips Wouwerman
Philips Wouwerman (also Wouwermans) (24 May 1619 (baptized) – 19 May 1668) was a Dutch painter of hunting, landscape and battle scenes.
Life and work
Philips Wouwerman was one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the Dutch Golden ...
. A drawing of an ''Equestrian Battle'' in the Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis (; en, Maurice House) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer ...
has been attributed to van Bredael as being a copy after Wouwerman.[Annemarie Stefes , ''Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1800: Tafeln'', Böhlau Verlag, Köln Weimar, 2011, p. 140 ]
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1629 births
1719 deaths
Flemish Baroque painters
Flemish genre painters
Flemish landscape painters
Painters from Antwerp