Breughel
Pieter the Elder
[pee-ter;; Flemish pee-tuh r] /ˈpi tər;; Flemish ˈpi tər/ (Show IPA), (“Peasant Breughel”) c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.
his sons, Jan
[yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), (“Velvet Breughel”) 1568–1625, and Pieter the Younger, (“Hell Breughel”), 1564–1637?, Flemish painters.
Historical Examples
Recollections of the late William Beckford Henry Venn Lansdown
Egoists James Huneker
Belgium Emile Cammaerts
Adventures and Enthusiasms E. V. Lucas
Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2) Dawson Turner
Egoists James Huneker
The Spell of Flanders Edward Neville Vose
Belgium Emile Cammaerts
Ivory Apes and Peacocks James Huneker
noun
a variant spelling of Brueghel
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