Ambrosius Brueghel

Ambrosius Brueghel (; baptized 10 August 1617 – 9 February 1675) was a Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists. Less prolific and less well-known than a number of his family members, his oeuvre is not very well understood and is believed to comprise Baroque still lifes, garland paintings as well as landscapes.

Life Ambrosius Brueghel was born in Antwerp as the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Catharina van Marienburg. His father was one of the leading painters in Antwerp and the son of the famous Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. His older (half)-brother Jan Brueghel the Younger was also a painter and took over the workshop of their father on his death in 1625. His sister Anna married the prominent court painter David Teniers the Younger in 1637. Ambrosius is known to have collaborated with his brother-in-law on some landscapes with genre scenes. Another sister Catharina married the painter Jan Baptist Borrekens.

Work Ambrosius Brueghel's work has been described as being in the same style as that of his father.

Landscapes by Ambrosius have been recorded in the estate of the family of his guardian Hendrick van Balen. A landscape signed and dated Ambrosius Breughel fecit 1653 was in 1876 in the collection of J. Lenglart in Lille, while another Landscape, allegedly with figures by his brother-in-law David Teniers the Younger, signed Ambrosius Broeghel, was in the Fahnenburg near Düsseldorf in 1894. The location of these paintings is now unknown.

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