¦ ¦ ¦ x Isabelle de Jode (died 1603), daughter of engraver Gerard de Jode (1509–1591) and brother to cartographer Cornelis de Jode (1568–1600) and engraver Pieter de Jode I (1570–1634)

¦ ¦ x Pieter Bruegel the Elder (died 1569), marriage in 1563, to his master's daughter. ¦ x Mayken Verhulst (1518–1599), painter of miniatures, from a family of painters, and second wife of Pieter Coecke ¦ x Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550), painter: two of his sons, Pieter II and Pauwel, were also painters ¦ +→ Anna van Dornicke (died before 1529) 1527), painter, who may be the same as Jan van Dornicke and/or the Master of 1518 Jan Mertens the Elder, sculptor, about whom very little is known In the below tree only the main family members have been included, not those brothers and sisters who didn't work as an artist or married a known artist. The complete list of all painters related to this family is longer though. The image above shows the main branch of the family. Pieter Bruegel the Elder used that spelling, but all later members of the family used Brueghel.įamily tree Mertens-Brueghel-Jode-Teniers family The Brueghel family produced the largest number of major painters of all Flemish families.

the Francken family, which had at least ten painters spanning four generations. Due to the organisation in guilds and training being done with established painters and not in schools or academies, painters often passed on the knowledge from father to son (or, much more rarely, daughter), and there are many examples of Flemish painting families spanning two or more generations, e.g. The Brueghel family ( / ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl/, also US: / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl/ Dutch: ( listen)), also spelled Bruegel or Breughel, is an extended family of Dutch and Flemish painters which played a major role in the development of the art in Brabant and Flanders throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. David Teniers, The Painter and His Family, c.

Brueghel by Pierre Sterckx