Val, Lucas de

Lucas de Val ( Dutch: Lucas de Wael ; March 3, 1591 , Antwerp - October 25, 1661 , ibid.) - South Dutch ( Flemish ) landscape painter; son of Jan de Val ; the elder brother of the artist Cornelis de Valais .

Lucas de val
niderl. Lucas de wael
Portrait of Val brothers - Lucas and Cornelis , engraving by Hollar from a painting by Van Dyck .
Date of Birth	March 3, 1591 ( 1591-03-03 )
Place of Birth	Antwerp , Spanish Netherlands
Date of death	October 25, 1661 ( 1661-10-25 ) (70 years old)
Place of death	Antwerp , Spanish Netherlands
Citizenship	Spanish Netherlands
Genre	flemish painter
Style	baroque

The student was first his father, then his uncle - Jan Brueghel the Elder in his workshop school, from which he went to Italy with his brother Cornelis. Over the long years of his life in Genoa, he painted many landscapes with waterfalls and rocks, both in oil paints and in frescoes . Upon returning from Italy in 1628 he was enrolled in the Antwerp Guild of Painters ^[1] .