Democratic and national features of Dutch art of the middle of the XVI century are most clearly revealed in the work of Peter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525-1569). He was a pupil of Cook van Alst, travelled to Italy, but went on a different path than his teacher. Bruegel affirmed art, rooted in folk concepts and ideas. He was the initiator of the peasant genre in Dutch art (for which he later received the nickname Muzhitsky) and wrote a new page in the development of the Dutch landscape. The works of this artist are not in Russian collections. The work of his eldest son Peter Bruegel the Younger, who often copied the works of his father, can give an idea of ​​the work of the great master.
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