Editing Jan Brueghel the Younger (section)

===General===
[[File:Jan Brueghel (II) - Extensive Landscape with Travellers Before a Windmill.jpg|thumb|''Extensive Landscape with Travellers Before a Windmill'']]
Taking over his father's workshop at an early age, he painted the same subjects as his father in a style which was similar to that of his father. About 340 paintings have been attributed to him.  His repertoire included history paintings, allegorical and mythological scenes, landscapes and seascapes, hunting pieces, village scenes, battle scenes and scenes of hellfire and the underworld. Unlike his father, he did not paint many flower still lifes.<ref name=RKD/> Like his father and uncle, he would also reinterpret the genre and landscape paintings of his grandfather [[Pieter Brueghel the Elder]].  An example is the [[:File:Jan Brueghel (II) - A village brawl.jpg|''Fight between Peasants'']] (Dorotheum Vienna 30 April 2019, lot 383), which goes back to a now lost painting of his grandfather, which was likely in the collection of his father and of which a print exists. Whereas in the print after Pieter Brueghel the Elder the viewer looks at the scene a 'spectator from a raised stage', in Jan Brueghel the Younger's version the viewer is more involved due to the lower viewpoint.<ref>[https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/6154437 Jan Brueghel (II), ''A village brawl''] at Dorotheum</ref>  Jan de Younger further created a new painting category of animals in landscapes.<ref name=oxonline/> After the death of his father he changed his signature from 'Brueghel' to 'Breughel'.<ref name=RKD/>

While he did not surpass his father in the quality of his output, his early works can hardly be distinguished from those of his father in terms of their high level of execution.<ref name=oxonline/> He gradually was able to break away from his father's style by developing a broader, more painterly, and less structured manner of painting.<ref name=dorsti/>