He is known for his landscapes and peasant scenes.

The collection contains some great Soviet-Turkmen artwork: happy peasant scenes with a backdrop of yurts and smoke-belching factories.

They also saw the roughly painted peasant scenes by Jean-François Millet, who lived in the tiny village of Barbizon, south of Paris.

Today his copies - above all those of Millet's "Labors of the Field" and other peasant scenes - are often better known than the originals.

The tapestries, woven c.1710, depicting peasant scenes by Teniers, have been cut and adapted to fit the proportions and features of the room.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (died 1569)

Dr. Brunies dwelt at some length on the hunt still lifes and peasant scenes, spoke about genre painting and Adriaen Brouwer, his favorite painter.

His landscapes at this time were traditional renditions of peasant scenes, in the manner of Jean Millet.

By that time he was recognized as a leading modern artist known for his peasant scenes, but also for his mystical-religious compositions.

Jan's brother Andries (c.1612-41), who specialised in peasant scenes, died in Venice as they were returning to Utrecht.