Jan Brueghel
His landscape paintings are brightly colored and often populated with many figures in the style of Jan Brueghel the Elder. Because of this similarity with Jan Brueghel the Elder's landscapes, the Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken erroneously stated that Gijsels studied with Brueghel. Even though there is no documentary evidence to support this, the close stylistic similarity with Brueghel's work has given rise to the assumption that the artist may have worked or trained with Brueghel's son, Jan Brueghel the Younger, who worked in the style of his father. In addition to village scenes Gijsels also painted landscape compositions with elegant figures such as the (Christie's London sale of 7 December 2006 lot 34). Gijsels painted many river and coastal landscapes.