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Jan Brueghel (the Elder)
Biography
Anyone who has ever followed in the footsteps of a famous father knows it can be a curse as well as a blessing. While there is instant name recognition, there is also an elevated standard of quality which the son or daughter must live up to.
Most people are familiar with the work of Northern Renaissance artist, Pieter Brueghel, famous for his landscapes and peasant genre subjects. His son, Jan Brueghel, was born in 1568 just before his father died.
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His brother, Pieter Brueghel (the younger) was also a successful artist. Growing up without the influence of his painter-father, Jan was taught the gentle art of watercolour by his maternal grandmother. Perhaps because of this, the style and substance of his painting is nothing like that of either his father or brother.
And judging by one of his most famous works, Allegory of Sight, it would appear, at least insofar as technique and audacity were concerned, he was twice the painter either of them w