Jan Brueghel the Younger was an independent artist of great talent, who has been underappreciated in historiography at times. He was the eldest son of Jan ‘Velvet’ Brueghel and thus the grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. He probably trained in his father’s workshop, who encouraged him to travel to Milan in 1622 and enter the service of Cardinal Federico Borromeo. From Milan, he travelled to Ma