Bartholomeus Breenbergh. Bartholomeus Breenbergh was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian and Italianate landscapes, in Rome and Amsterdam.
Little is known of his early life. In his three-volume Schouburg, Arnold Houbraken mentioned him in his first volume with an entreaty to readers to write to him with more news of Breenbergh's biography.
He had been told that Breenberg was born in Utrecht and had been a master of Cornelis van Poelenburgh, which he knew to be impossible from the facts that he already had, namely the birth of Poelenburg in 1586 and the death of Breenberg in 1660. Houbraken never received the information he requested, though he mentioned Breenbergh again in his second volume in a list of 59 competent painters who were contemporaries of Abraham Bloemaert and Paulus Potter.
There he was a contemporary of Jacques Waben and possibly received his first training, though his first teacher is now supposed to be one of those many forgotten Amsterdam landscape painters of the 1610s. His registered teachers are Pieter Lastman and Jacob Symonsz Pynas.
Breenbergh is first registered as a painter on an archival record in 1619 in Amsterdam, though he possibly was established there earlier. In the same year he left for Rome. There he lived and worked with the Flemish painter Frans van de Kasteele and was heavily influenced by another Fleming resident, the landscape painter Paul Bril. From 1623, howev
Little is known of his early life. In his three-volume Schouburg, Arnold Houbraken mentioned him in his first volume with an entreaty to readers to write to him with more news of Breenbergh's biography.
He had been told that Breenberg was born in Utrecht and had been a master of Cornelis van Poelenburgh, which he knew to be impossible from the facts that he already had, namely the birth of Poelenburg in 1586 and the death of Breenberg in 1660. Houbraken never received the information he requested, though he mentioned Breenbergh again in his second volume in a list of 59 competent painters who were contemporaries of Abraham Bloemaert and Paulus Potter.
There he was a contemporary of Jacques Waben and possibly received his first training, though his first teacher is now supposed to be one of those many forgotten Amsterdam landscape painters of the 1610s. His registered teachers are Pieter Lastman and Jacob Symonsz Pynas.
Breenbergh is first registered as a painter on an archival record in 1619 in Amsterdam, though he possibly was established there earlier. In the same year he left for Rome. There he lived and worked with the Flemish painter Frans van de Kasteele and was heavily influenced by another Fleming resident, the landscape painter Paul Bril. From 1623, howev
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