Adriaen Brouwer (c. 1605, in Oudenaarde – January 1638, in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter sprightly in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other ‘lower class’ individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Brouwer contributed to the take forward of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which consider varieties of expression. In his utter year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer’s exploit had an important influence upon the bordering generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters.
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