Frans Breydel

Frans Breydel or Frans Breydel I (1679 in Antwerp – 1750 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter, draftsman and decorative painter (of interiors). He is known for his merry companies, carnival scenes, landscapes and battle pieces.

Life

The details about Frans Breydel's life are sketchy. Frans Breydel was a younger brother of the painter Karel Breydel.

Frans later left Kassel for London where he linked up with the Dutch painter Herman van der Mijn. This must have been before 1724. Little is known about the remainder of his life. According to the French 18th-century biographer Jean-Baptiste Descamps, Frans Breydel died in Antwerp in 1750 where he was buried in the St. Andrew's Church. Work He first specialised in portraits but changed to merry companies, a genre which was very popular in France at the time.