Karel Breydel

Most of the information about Karel Breydel's life is based on the writings of the French 18th-century biographer Jean-Baptiste Descamps who included a lengthy biography of Breydel in his La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois.

[1] This information is not very reliable as Descamps was prone to inventing stories to make his biographies more interesting.

He was in Antwerp a pupil of Pieter Rijsbraeck for three years and then of Peter Ykens.

[1][3] Karel Breydel is known as a painter of battle pieces and cavalry attacks.

Breydel worked as a copyist and produced in 1703 copies after Griffier and Jan Brueghel the Elder for art dealer Jakob de Vos in Amsterdam.