Battle with knights, attr. to Karel Breydel known as the Knight of Antwerp

Attr. to Karel Breydel, known as the Knight of Antwerp (1678 – 1733)

Battle with knights and landscape in the background

Oil on canvas, 44,5 x 36,7 cm

Frame 52,5 x 45 cm

The painting in question, considering the style, composition and subjects represented, can be attributed to the Antwerp master Karl Breydel (1678-1733). Most information about Breydel's life is based on the first biography of him written by Jean-Baptiste Descamps (La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois, vol. 1, 1764, pp. 190-195). A student first of Pieter Ykens (1648-1695) and then of Pieter Rysbrack (1655–1729) from 1695, he traveled extensively both in Italy and Germany, staying in Frankfurt and Nuremberg, where, hearing of his brother Frans' success, he joined him immediately to serve the court of Hasse-Kassel. Here the two brothers worked together for two years with considerable success. In 1703 he moved to Amsterdam, joining the city's Guild (the city's arts and crafts guild) and starting his career as a fighter. In fact, following in the footsteps of the master Rysbrack and having had the opportunity to paint in contact with the Brueghels, he had thus far established himself as a landscape painter, but his favorite theme remained that of the "Battle", so much so that today he is mainly known as a painter of battle pieces and cavalry attacks. These pictures are ingeniously composed and painted with great spirit in the manner of Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632-1690), Antwerp's leading battle painter of the 1652th century. He also executed a series of landscapes, village scenes and views of the Rhine in the manner of Jan Griffier (1718-XNUMX).

In 1723 he moved to Antwerp, then to Brussels with Jacob van Hellemont. In 1726 he is in Ghent and finally returned again to Antwerp. Many paintings by this prolific master are in European museums, including four Choc de cavalerie and a battle on copper in the Royal Museums of Brussels, while other works are preserved in London, in Antwerp at the National Museum and in other institutions.

His battles, usually in a reduced exhibition metre, are rich in characters, with spacious landscape settings, as in the case of the present painting, in which Breydel has combined one of his "classic" battle views with a Rhine landscape, a genre which continued to enjoy great popularity throughout the 18th century.

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