2-706-343 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Portrait of Peter Bruegel', 1883.Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525/30-1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings. From "St. Nicholas: Volume X. Part I., November 1882, to May 1883". [Scribner & Co., New York, 1883]