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Born in Antwerp around 1554, Paul Bril spent most of his career in Rome, where he joined his brother Matthijs. His landscapes combine Flemish traditions with the study of Italian painting, particularly the work of Annibale Carracci. He produced both frescoes and small pictures, sometimes collaborating with painters of figures. Ancient architecture informed his drawings and became part of the imaginary settings he constructed in his paintings.
Fantastic Landscape of 1598, in the National Galleries of Scotland, is painted in oil on copper. Successive bands of colour create depth, moving from a brown foreground through intermediate greens to distant blues. Rocks, twisting tree trunks and a river valley accompany classical fragments. His paintings, and the prints that circulated their designs, helped transmit this approach to landscape to northern artists working in Italy.
This profile brings together identity references for Paul Bril and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Lempertz
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Oil on wood
Umkreis - Circle
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2023-05-12
Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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Oil on canvas
Die Ankunft Arions auf einem Delfin
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-11-17
Published result : 47120 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 40000
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Umkreis
Tuschfeder-Zeichnung
Catalogue period : 2013-11-06
Published result : 900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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