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January Brueghel
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He travelled to Rome where he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. lieutenant was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing nickname, the so-called "bent name". January Baptist Brueghel was given the bent name "Meleager".
The early Dutch biographer Houbraken mentioned Brueghel in a poem about the Bentvueghels at the end of his second volume on artists.
Houbraken mentioned him again in his third volume in the list of artists who signed Abraham Genoels" bentbrief. He was the younger brother of Abraham Brueghel who accompanied him to Naples, but returned to Rome after his brother"s death.
January Baptist Brueghel died in Rome.
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