About the Artist

Paul Bril (1554 Antwerp-1626 Rome), the Flemish painter and copperplate engraver, worked mainly in Rome. He received his first training from his father, the painter Mattheus Bril the Elder. In 1574 he traveled via Lyon to Rome, where he founded a workshop based on the model of that of the Caraccis; Agostino Tassi, the teacher of Claude Lorrain, was amongst the painters later trained there. Bril's works span multiple genres, ranging from landscapes and large mythological and religious works to important miniatures and etchings. Significant works by the artist include Forest Landscape, 1591, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Venus and Adonis, Musee des Augustins, Toulouse; and The Conversion of Saint Jerome, c. 1606, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.