Painting Classics: Pieter Bruegel the Elder June 4th, 2011 Painting Classics Flamand, Jan van Eyck, Netherlands, Peasant Bruegel, We continue our journey into the history of art, with a collection of paintings by one of the greatest Flemish painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder or, how he was know in his time "Peasant Bruegel" (he lived during 1525-69).