He emigrated at a young age to Italy where he played an important role in the development of the style of decorative Baroque still lifes.

Much of his artistic training came from his father, Jan Brueghel the Younger, prolific painter and regular collaborator with Rubens.

Abraham showed great promise as an artist from an early age, and started to make a name for himself in his teenage years.

In 1670 he was invited into the Accademia di San Luca, a Roman academy, which had as its objective the elevation of the work of artists.

[4] The increasingly lush still lifes of the Flemish painters Frans Snyders, Jan Fyt and Pieter Boel who had also worked in Italy were the principal influences on Abraham Brueghel.

He usually painted the landscapes in these collaborations himself while the staffage was created by well-known Italian painters, such as Carlo Maratta, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Nicola Vaccaro and Giacinto Brandi.

The painting is a variant of the Grapes and pomegranate with a vase of flowers and a female figure (private collection), which has been dated to the end of the 1660s.

The work is characteristic of late 17th century Neapolitan painting which aimed almost exclusively at ornamental and decorative effect rather than at naturalism.

It became popular and leading Flemish still life painters, in particular Daniel Seghers, helped spread the genre abroad.