Abraham Brueghel worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Abraham Brueghel as Flemish Baroque painter (1631-1690).
Abraham Brueghel was born at Antwerp in 1631. His recorded nationality is Spanish Netherlands.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, printmaker and art dealer.
His recorded movement is baroque.
Among his best-known works are Still life with fruit and Woman Grasping Fruits. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Spanish Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Abraham Brueghel died in 1697, aged 66. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Still life with fruit
- Notable work: Woman Grasping Fruits
- Movement: Baroque
