Anna Brueghel

Anna Brueghel was a Flemish painter from Brabant, none of whose work is known to have been preserved. She was the daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and the wife of David Teniers II. She also went by the name Anna Teniers.

Biography

Anna Brueghel was born on 4 October 1620 in Antwerp. She was the daughter of Jan Breughel the Elder and his second wife, Catharina van Mariënborch. After her father's death in 1625, Anna Brueghel was a ward of Peter Paul Rubens.
In 1637, she married David Teniers II. Together they had eight children. She would act as the artists model for many of Teniers' portraits of witches. Around 1650, the family moved to Brussels because Teniers became a court painter.
She died on 11 May 1656, in Brussels, and was buried in the Church of St. James on Coudenberg.

With her husband David Teniers II, Anna Brueghel had eight children: