Jan Pieter van Bredael

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Battle won against the Turks

Jan Pieter van Bredael (born July 27, 1683 in Antwerp , † 1735 in Vienna ; also known as Jean Pierre van Bredael or Jan Pieter Bredael II ) was a Flemish painter of battles , hunting, landscape and vedute .

Life

The battle of Almenara

Jan Pieter van Bredael was the son of the almost unknown painter Joris van Bredael (1661–1706), who became a free master of the Guild of St. Luke in 1684 and taught his son painting until his death . At the age of 23, Bredael went to Prague in 1706 and worked there for Prince Eugene of Savoy for years.

In 1720 the artist returned to his hometown Antwerp and joined the Guild of St. Luke. Soon afterwards, Prince Eugene called him back to Vienna, where he died unmarried in 1735.

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River landscape with a village

Bredael was next to Jan van Huchtenburgh (1647–1733) and Ignace Parrocel (1667–1722) another battle painter who was in the patronage of Prince Eugene and was commissioned by him to paint battle paintings of his campaigns, especially against the Turks . Bredael also painted battles from the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), in which the Savoy was not in command, but Guido von Starhemberg (1657–1737). It can therefore be assumed that Prince Eugene was not the artist's only client.

Some of the battle paintings by Jan Pieter van Bredael have survived and are now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , the Army History Museum and Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.

The artist usually signed his paintings "JPvan: Bredal".

Works (excerpt)

  • The Battle of Peterwardein . Oil on canvas, 91 × 127 cm. KHM Inv. No. GG1743, on permanent loan to the Army History Museum Vienna.
  • The battle of Almenara . Oil on canvas, 172 × 256 cm. KHM Inv. No. GG2703, on permanent loan to the Army History Museum Vienna.
  • The battle of Zaragoza . Oil on canvas, 171 × 257 cm. KHM Inv. No. GG2704, on permanent loan to the Army History Museum in Vienna.
  • The liberation of Barcelona . Oil on canvas, 171 × 245 cm. KHM Inv. No. GG2709, permanent loan from the Army History Museum Vienna.
  • The battle of Villaviciosa . Oil on canvas, 171 × 245 cm. KHM Inv. No. GG2710, on permanent loan to the Army History Museum in Vienna.

literature

Fair amusement
  • Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Leipzig, 1912.
  • Alfred Wurzbach: Dutch artist lexicon. Amsterdam 1963.
  • Giancarlo Sestieri: Battle Painters. Italian and Foreign Masters of the XVII and XVIII centuries , Rom 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not to be confused with Jan Pieter van Bredael I (1654–1745).
  2. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1912, 4, 563.
  3. ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Ed.): Prinz Eugen von Savoyen 1663–1736. Exhibition for the 300th birthday October 9 to December 31, 1963 , Vienna 1963, p. 164
  4. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790, Salzburg 1983 p. 26.
  5. ^ Alfred Wurzbach, Dutch Artist Lexicon. Amsterdam 1963, 1, 177.

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personal data
SURNAME Bredael, Jan Pieter van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bredael, Jean Pierre van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH 1735
Place of death Vienna