page_title: Jan Frans van Bredael
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Frans van Bredael / Work / Notes
context_page_description: Jan Frans van Bredael or Jan Frans van Bredael the Elder was a Flemish painter known for his landscapes, battle scenes and equestrian paintings. A prominent member of the third generation of the van Bredael family of painters of Antwerp, he was active mainly in his native Antwerp. He worked also in London and Paris where he enjoyed the patronage of an aristocratic clientele.
context_section_description: Known in France as Jean Francois van Bredael (I).  The artist would also sign as 'J. F. v. Breda'
  Jan Frans van Bredael (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  Jan Frans van Bredael, Elegant hunting party resting at a blacksmith’s at Dorotheum
  Jan Frans van Bredael in: Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool, Antwerpen, 1883, p. 1034-1035 (in Dutch)
  Walther Bernt, The Netherlandish painters of the seventeenth century, Volume 1, Phaidon, 1970, p. 19
  Die Künstlerfamilie Van Bredael at wouwerman.de (in German)
  Ad. Siret, BREDAEL, Jean-François VAN, in Biographie nationale de Belgique  (in French)
  Matthew Pilkington, A General Dictionary of Painters: Containing Memoirs of the Lives and Works of the Most Eminent Professors of the Art of Painting, from Its Revival, by Cimabue, in the Year 1250, to the Present Time. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected Throughout, with Numerous Additions, Particularly of the Most Distinguished Artists of the British School, Volume 1, T. M'Lean, 1824, p. 114
caption: A River Landscape with a Fortress
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