Collection: Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger was a Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work, as well as original compositions and Bruegelian pastiches. The large output of his studio (some 1,400 pictures exist with plausible links to Brueghel and his shop), which produced for the local and export market, contributed to the international spread of his father's imagery.

Traditionally Pieter Brueghel the Younger was nicknamed "de helse Brueghel" or "Hellish Brueghel" on the belief that he was the author of several paintings with fantastic depictions of fire and grotesque imagery. These paintings have now been attributed to his brother Jan Brueghel the Elder.

His style took its cues from Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Among his canonical works are Census at Bethlehem, The Return from the Inn, The Good Shepherd, and Adoration of the magi. He worked primarily in religious painting and genre painting. The work sits within the Renaissance tradition, specifically the Northern Renaissance current.