Breenbergh was a native of Deventer. He is recorded in Amsterdam in 1619, then in Rome, where he was associated with Paul Bril. By 1653 he was back in Amsterdam, where he died. He was a landscape and figure painter.
Bartholomeus Breenbergh
1598 - 1657
Paintings by Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Breenbergh shows us an Old Testament story taking place in an imaginary Egypt, with luxuriant European foliage under a grey Northern sky and exquisitely detailed portrayals of antiquities: obelisks, a column, a pyramid and a stela (a carved commemorative slab of stone). Not all these antique obje...