Anna Brueghel

Anna Brueghel
"Portrait of Anna Brueghel and her son David Teniers III" (circa 1645) by David Teniers II
Born4 October 1620
Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant (now Belgium)
Died11 May 1656 (aged 35)
Brussels, Duchy of Brabant (now Belgium)
Resting placeChurch of St. James on Coudenberg
Other namesAnna Teniers
Occupation(s)Painter, artists model
SpouseDavid Teniers II (m. 1637–)
Children8
FatherJan Brueghel the Elder
RelativesPieter Bruegel the Elder (paternal grandfather)
FamilyBrueghel family

Anna Brueghel (4 October 1620 – 11 May 1656) was a Flemish painter from Brabant, none of whose work is known to have been preserved. She was the daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and the wife of David Teniers II.[1] She also went by the name Anna Teniers.[2]

Biography

Anna Brueghel was born on 4 October 1620 in Antwerp (now Belgium).[3] She was the daughter of Jan Breughel the Elder and his second wife, Catharina van Mariënborch.[4] After her father's death in 1625, Anna Brueghel was a ward of Peter Paul Rubens.[5]

In 1637, she married David Teniers II (also known as David Teniers the Younger).[6][7][8] Together they had eight children. She would act as the artists model for many of Teniers' portraits of witches.[9] Around 1650, the family moved to Brussels because Teniers became a court painter.[8]

She died on 11 May 1656, in Brussels, and was buried in the Church of St. James on Coudenberg.[1]

Children

With her husband David Teniers II, Anna Brueghel had eight children:

  • David Teniers III (baptized 10 July 1638–1685), married Anna Maria Bonnarens[5][10]
  • Cornelia Teniers (baptized 7 January 1640–1706), married to Jan Erasmus Quellinus[11]
  • Anna-Maria Teniers (baptized 19 January 1644–?)
  • Clara Teniers (baptized 29 January 1646–?)
  • Antoon Teniers (baptized 12 June 1648 –?)
  • Anna Teniers (baptized 5 October 1651–?)
  • Justinus Leopold Teniers (baptized 5 February 1653–18 September 1684)[4]
  • Anna Catharina Teniers (baptized 24 February 1655–1656)[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Davidson, Jane P. (2019-03-12). David Teniers The Younger. Routledge. pp. 17, 52. ISBN 978-0-429-72778-8 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Collection: Anna Brueghel". The British Museum.
  3. ^ Görling, Adolph (1870). Deutschlands Kunstschätze: Eine Sammlung der hervorragendsten Bilder der Berliner Dresdener, Münchener und Wiener Galerien. Mit erläuterndem Text von Adolph Görling. Und eine Reihe von Portraits der bedeutendsten Meister. Mit biographischen Notizen von A[lfred] Woltmann und Br. Meyer (in German). A. H. Payne. p. 46.
  4. ^ a b c Stad, Antwerpen (1865). Kermisfeesten: 200e verjaring van de stichting der Koninklijke Akademie (in Dutch). J.-E. Buschmann. p. 149.
  5. ^ a b Michel, Emile; Charles, Victoria (May 8, 2012). The Brueghels. Parkstone International. pp. 223, 250. ISBN 978-1-78042-988-5 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art Robert Lehman Collection (1998). Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Paintings. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-87099-881-2 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Brown, Jonathan (2023-10-17). Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Princeton University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-691-25286-5.
  8. ^ a b Durrant, Nancy (2017-02-04). "Bruegel and sons: the family who changed art". The Times. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  9. ^ Davidson, Jane P. (2012-01-06). Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of European Culture, 1400–1700. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 280. ISBN 979-8-216-07681-0 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ De Vlaamsche school (in Dutch). J.E. Buschmann. 1864. p. 81.
  11. ^ Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt" afgeschreven en bemerkt door Ph. Rombouts en Th. Van Lerius, Advokaet, onder de bescherming van den raed van bestuer der koninklyke Akademie van beeldende Kunsten, van gezegde Stad, Volume 2, Antwerp, 1872, pp. 312 (in Dutch)