BROUWER or BRAUWER, ADRIAN (c. Flemish painter, was born at Oudenarde (according to some authorities at Haarlem), and died at Antwerp in Jan. 2638. He went to Amsterdam in 1626, in 1628 to Haarlem, where he was a pupil of Frans Hals, and in 1631 to Antwerp, where he came under the influence of Rubens. Brouwer painted scenes of peasant and tavern life, and was a colourist of great charm. His chief works are in the Munich and Dresden galleries. There are also ex amples in London galleries, the finest being "The Sleeping Peasant" in the Wallace collection. Sir Charles Holmes (National Gallery, vol. ii.) says that "Brouwer's little clusters of brawling peasants have the solidity of spirited statuettes, and their setting is arranged with a taste in avoiding the superfluous no less exigent than Vermeer's."