Anna Brueghel
{{Short description|Brabant painter (1620–1656)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anna Brueghel
| image = Portrait of Anna Brueghel and her son David Teniers III.jpg
| caption = "Portrait of Anna Brueghel and her son David Teniers III" (circa 1645) by David Teniers II
| other_names = Anna Teniers
| birth_date = 4 October 1620
| birth_place = Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant (now Belgium)
| death_date = 11 May 1656 (aged 35)
| death_place = Brussels, Duchy of Brabant (now Belgium)
| resting_place = Church of St. James on Coudenberg
| occupation = Painter, artists model
| spouse = David Teniers II (m. 1637–)
| children = 8
| father = Jan Brueghel the Elder
| relatives = Pieter Bruegel the Elder (paternal grandfather)
| family = Brueghel 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.{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jane P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6HCkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP17 |title=David Teniers The Younger |date=2019-03-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-72778-8 |pages=17, 52 |language=en |via=Google Books}} She also went by the name Anna Teniers.{{Cite web |title=Collection: Anna Brueghel |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG187951 |website=The British Museum}}
Biography
Anna Brueghel was born on 4 October 1620 in Antwerp (now Belgium).{{Cite book |last=Görling |first=Adolph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bwNUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT46 |title=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 |date=1870 |publisher=A. H. Payne |pages=46 |language=de}} She was the daughter of Jan Breughel the Elder and his second wife, Catharina van Mariënborch. After her father's death in 1625, Anna Brueghel was a ward of Peter Paul Rubens.{{Cite book |last=Michel |first=Emile |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMWiLwnq8EAC&pg=PA223 |title=The Brueghels |last2=Charles |first2=Victoria |date=May 8, 2012 |publisher=Parkstone International |isbn=978-1-78042-988-5 |pages=223, 250 |language=en |via=Google Books}}
In 1637, she married David Teniers II (also known as David Teniers the Younger).{{Cite book |last=Metropolitan Museum of Art Robert Lehman Collection |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BU-36sK16MC&pg=PA129 |title=Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Paintings |date=1998 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-0-87099-881-2 |pages=129 |language=en |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Jonathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRm3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA171 |title=Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe |date=2023-10-17 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-25286-5 |pages=171 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Durrant |first=Nancy |date=2017-02-04 |title=Bruegel and sons: the family who changed art |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/bruegel-and-sons-the-family-who-changed-art-xf6fltq96 |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=The Times |language=en}} Together they had eight children. She would act as the artists model for many of Teniers' portraits of witches.{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jane P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwfJEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT280 |title=Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of European Culture, 1400–1700 |date=2012-01-06 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=979-8-216-07681-0 |pages=280 |language=en |via=Google Books}} Around 1650, the family moved to Brussels because Teniers became a court painter.
She died on 11 May 1656, in Brussels, and was buried in the Church of St. James on Coudenberg.
Children
With her husband David Teniers II, Anna Brueghel had eight children:
- David Teniers III (baptized 10 July 1638–1685), married Anna Maria Bonnarens{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2LJ4PT2UxIC&pg=PA81 |title=De Vlaamsche school |date=1864 |publisher=J.E. Buschmann |pages=81 |language=nl}}
- Cornelia Teniers (baptized 7 January 1640–1706), married to Jan Erasmus Quellinus[https://books.google.com/books?id=ADFTAAAAcAAJ 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 lang|nl}}
- 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){{Cite book |last=Stad |first=Antwerpen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bHtPk0gjMvQC&pg=PA149 |title=Kermisfeesten: 200e verjaring van de stichting der Koninklijke Akademie |date=1865 |publisher=J.-E. Buschmann |pages=149 |language=nl}}
- Anna Catharina Teniers (baptized 24 February 1655–1656)
References
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Category:17th-century Flemish painters
Category:17th-century women painters
Category:Flemish women painters
Category:Painters from Antwerp