23 Facts About Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters.

Adriaen Brouwer had by that time already left the paternal home.

Adriaen Brouwer was active in the Chamber of Rhetoric 'De Wijngaertranken' in Haarlem.

In 1631 Adriaen Brouwer returned to his native Flanders where he was registered as a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke even before he had become a poorter of Antwerp.

The stylistic similarities of van Craesbeeck's early work with that of Adriaen Brouwer seem to corroborate such pupilage.

Adriaen Brouwer is the figure in the middle who is turned around to face the viewer.

In 1635 Adriaen Brouwer took on Jan-Baptist Dandoy as his only officially registered pupil.

Adriaen Brouwer left a small body of work amounting to about 60 works.

For instance, The Smoker showing a man exhaling smoke while holding a bottle of liquor was attributed for a long time to Adriaen Brouwer, but is given to Adriaen Brouwer's follower and, possibly, pupil Joos van Craesbeeck.

The principal subject matter of Adriaen Brouwer are genre scenes with peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaging in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fights etc.

Adriaen Brouwer produced a few landscapes in the final years of his career.

Adriaen Brouwer was influenced by Dirck Hals, a genre painter who was active in Haarlem.

Around 1630, Adriaen Brouwer's palette started showing a strong preference for browns, greys and greens.

Adriaen Brouwer gradually appears to have concentrated more on the expressions of his subjects going through the emotions of pain, anger, disgust and joy.

Adriaen Brouwer is regarded as an important innovator of portrait painting, a prominent genre in Netherlandish art.

Adriaen Brouwer is the second figure on the left who is turned towards the viewer.

Adriaen Brouwer has his eyes wide open, holds a beer jug in his right hand and puffs out smoke from his pipe.

Adriaen Brouwer achieved this by expanding the portraits to full-length portraits, setting the scene in a tavern, the expressiveness of the faces and the nonchalant demeanour and clothing of the sitters.

Adriaen Brouwer played an important role in the development of the genre of the tronie.

Adriaen Brouwer contributed to the genre as he had a talent for expressiveness.

Adriaen Brouwer painted a number of genre portraits that represent the five senses or the seven deadly sins.

Adriaen Brouwer painted a few late landscapes in addition to his rural scenes.

In Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon published a poem entitled "A Dutch Interior" based on Adriaen Brouwer's painting Peasants playing cards in an Inn.