Biography for Paulus Brill

Employment

Paulus Brill spent most of his career working in France and Italy with his brother Mattheus (1550-1583). He was closely associated with the Carracci family, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is known to have painted some of the figures in Brill's landscapes. Brill's arcadian landscapes in which the figures seem almost incidental, initiated the classical landscape movement of the seventeenth century, culminating in the art of Claude Lorraine (1600-1682) and Nicholas Poussin (1593/4-1665).