Brill (or Bril), Matheus (or Matthew) (1550–1584) and Paul (1554–1626)

Flemish painter brothers. As young men they studied and worked in Rome, painting landscapes and large frescoes. Matheus's work for the Vatican was completed after his death by his brother. Paul's small landscapes on copper influenced those of Adam Elsheimer, with whom he is associated in this development.

Paul in particular brought together the Flemish style of landscape and that developed in Italy by Annibale Carracci and Domenichino, from which stemmed the classical landscape of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. The Martyrdom of St Clement, in the Sala Clementina of the Vatican, is one of his most important works.