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(1) Peeter Verbrugghen (i)
(b Antwerp, bapt 5 June 1615; d Antwerp, 31 Oct 1686). Sculptor and stone merchant. He was apprenticed in 1626 to Simon de Neve (d before 1652). Later he worked under Erasmus Quellinus (i), and in 1641, the year he became a master sculptor, he married his master’s daughter, Cornelia Quellinus. Through his collaboration with his brother-in-law Artus Quellinus (i), he absorbed the Quellinus family style, which he passed on to his 21 apprentices, among them Matheus van Beveren, Peter Scheemaeckers (i) and his own sons. From 1659 until 1661 he was Dean of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke. His major work was the furnishing of St Paul’s, Antwerp, where he was responsible for the oak confessionals in 1657–9. In 1654 he made the oak organ case in collaboration with Artus Quellinus (i), and in 1670 he and his son (2) Peeter Verbrugghen (ii) were responsible for the high altar, also of oak. His own static, thick-set, hieratic sculptures belong to the Flemish High Baroque tradition.
Part of the Verbrugghen family
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