Editing Pieter Bruegel the Elder (section)

==Family==
Around 1563, Bruegel moved from Antwerp to Brussels, where he married Mayken Coecke, the daughter of the painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst and [[Mayken Verhulst]]. As registered in the archives of the [[Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)|Cathedral of Antwerp]], their [[Ondertrouw|deposition for marriage]] was registered 25 July 1563. The marriage was concluded in the [[Chapel Church]], Brussels in 1563.<ref>Jean Bastiaensen, "De verloving van Pieter Bruegel de Oude. Nieuw licht op de Antwerpse verankering", [[Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen]], 51 (2013), no. 1: 26–27.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pieter-Bruegel-the-Elder|title=Pieter Bruegel, the Elder &#124; Flemish artist|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=20 August 2020}}</ref>

Pieter the Elder had two sons: Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder (both kept their name as Brueghel). Their grandmother, Mayken Verhulst, trained the sons because "the Elder" died when both were very small children. The older brother, Pieter Brueghel copied his father's style and compositions with competence and considerable commercial success. Jan was much more original, and very versatile.  He was an important figure in the transition to the Baroque style in [[Flemish Baroque painting]] and [[Dutch Golden Age painting]] in a number of its genres.  He was often a collaborator with other leading artists, including with [[Peter Paul Rubens]] on many works including the ''Allegory of Sight''.

Other members of the family include [[Jan van Kessel the Elder]] (grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder) and [[Jan van Kessel the Younger]]. Through [[David Teniers the Younger]], son-in-law of Jan Brueghel the Elder, the family is also related to the whole Teniers family of painters and the Quellinus family of painters and sculptors, through the marriage of [[Jan-Erasmus Quellinus]] to Cornelia, daughter of David Teniers the Younger.

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