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Son of the painter David the Elder and better-known brother of three other painters, he began his activity in Antwerp, where in 1637 he married the daughter of Jan Brueghel of the Velvets. He was a pupil of his father, through whom he learned the style of Adam Elsheimer and the innovations brought by Pieter Paul Rubens. Read the full biography

Son of the painter David the Elder and better-known brother of three other painters, he began his activity in Antwerp, where in 1637 he married the daughter of Jan Brueghel of the Velvets. He was a pupil of his father, through whom he learned the style of Adam Elsheimer and the innovations brought by Pieter Paul Rubens. He was above all a painter of genre paintings. His most fertile period was from 1633 to 1640. Having moved to Brussels in 1651, he was appointed court painter and director of the collections by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.