Editing Jan Brueghel the Younger (section)

==Life==
Jan Brueghel was born in Antwerp on 13 September 1601 as the son of Jan and Isabella de Jode. His mother was the daughter of the cartographer, engraver and publisher [[Gerard de Jode]]. He trained with his father in his workshop.<ref name=brand>[https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/vandenbranden1883/0467 Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool''], Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 455–458 {{in lang|nl}}</ref> His father was a friend and close collaborator of Rubens. Jan likely assisted with his father's large-scale commissions.<ref name=rubens>Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen; with contributions by Tiarna Doherty, Mark Leonard, and Jørgen Wadum, ''Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship'', 2006, pp. 5–33</ref>
[[File:Lucas van Uden, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Jan Thomas d’Ypres - Portrait of Nicolaas de Man in the grounds of his country estate in the neighbourhood of Antwerp, surrounded by a garland of flowers.jpg|thumb|left|''Nicolaas de Man at his country estate'', portrait by [[Jan Thomas van Ieperen]] and  landscape by [[Lucas van Uden]]]]
On the wishes of his father he traveled around 1622 to Milan where he was welcomed by Cardinal [[Federico Borromeo]].<ref name=oxonline>[https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T011669 Hans J. Van Miegroet, ''Jan Brueghel the younger''], Oxford Art Online, accessed 21 February 2022</ref> The cardinal was a patron and friend of his father who had met in Rome about 30 years earlier.<ref name=brand/>   In what was likely an act of rebellion against his father, he went to Genoa where he stayed with his cousins, the Antwerp painters and art dealers [[Lucas de Wael]] and [[Cornelis de Wael]]. Their mother was a sister of Jan's mother. At the time his friend and fellow Antwerp artist [[Anthony van Dyck]] was also active in Genoa.  He later worked in Valletta on Malta in 1623.  From 1624 to 1625 he lived in [[Palermo]] on Sicily at the time when van Dyck was also working there.<ref name=RKD>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/13289 Jan Brueghel (II) record] on the website of the [[Netherlands Institute for Art History]]</ref>
[[File:Jan Brueghel (II) and Joos de Momper (II) - Winter landscape with an overturned horse-drawn cart, and figures driving a herd.jpg|thumb|''Winter landscape'', with Joos de Momper (II)]]

Jan learned that his father had died on 13 January 1625 from [[cholera]] only after his return to Northern Italy in Turin.  Wanting to return to Antwerp immediately, he had to delay his departure for 16 days due to a severe fever. After recovering from his illness, he set off for his homeland by way of France. In Paris he met the Antwerp art dealer and painter Peter Goetkint the Younger, who was the son of Peter Goetkint the Elder, the master of Jan's father.  Goetkint was eager to return to Antwerp because his wife was expected to deliver a baby soon.  The child was born on 25 August, the day on which Jan Breughel arrived in Antwerp with his travelling companion who died a few days later.<ref name=brand/>  Jan took over the management of his father's workshop, sold the finished works of his father and finished some of his father's unfinished paintings.<ref name=oxonline/> In the Guild year 1624–1625, Jan became a master painter of the [[Guild of Saint Luke]] of Antwerp.<ref name=lig>[https://archive.org/stream/deliggerenenand00lukagoog/deliggerenenand00lukagoog_djvu.txt Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (ed.), ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde''] Volume 2,  Antwerp, Julius de Koninck, 1871, pp. 631, 641, 654, 656, 669, 671 {{in lang|nl}}<!--Dutch--></ref>
[[File:Jan Brueghel (II) - A village brawl.jpg|thumb|left|''Fight between Peasants'']]
In 1626 he married [[Anna Maria Janssens]], daughter of [[Abraham Janssens]], a prominent history painter in Antwerp.<ref name=RKD/> He continued to operate the large workshop of his father.  In 1630 he became dean of the [[Guild of Saint Luke]], and was commissioned by the French court to paint a series of paintings of the biblical character Adam.<ref name=haeft>[[Johnny Van Haeften]], ''Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings'', Johnny Van Haeften gallery, 2005, p. 11</ref>  It seems that his studio declined after this period and that he started to paint smaller scale paintings which commanded lower prices than those produced earlier.<ref name=oxonline/>

He worked independently in [[Paris]] in the 1650s and produced paintings for the [[Austria]]n court in 1651.  He is recorded again in [[Antwerp]] in 1657 where he remained for the remainder of his life .<ref name=oxonline/> During a meeting of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke held on 8 October 1672, he got into a heated argument with Peter van Brekeveldt, another former dean of the guild, who injured him in an eye. As this injury affected his ability to paint, he sued van Brekeveldt for indemnification.  He died on 1 September 1678 at his home address on the Pruymenstraat in Antwerp.<ref name=brand/>

His pupils included his older sons [[Abraham Brueghel|Abraham]], [[Philips Brueghel|Philips]] and [[Jan Pieter Brueghel|Jan Peeter]], his nephew [[Jan van Kessel, senior|Jan van Kessel]], and his younger brother [[Ambrosius Brueghel|Ambrosius]].<ref name=RKD/>