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PAUL BRIL (1554—1626)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 571 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL
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BRIL (1554—1626)  , Flemish painter, was
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born at
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Antwerp . The success of his
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elder
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brother
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Matthew ('550—1584) in the Vatican induced him to go to
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Rome to live . On the
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death of Matthew,
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Paul, who far surpassed him as an artist, succeeded to his
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pensions and employments . He painted landscapes with a
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depth of
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chiaroscuro then little practised in
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Italy, and introduced into them figures well
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drawn and finely coloured . One of his best compositions is the " Martyrdom of St
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Clement," in the
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Sala Clementina of the Vatican .

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