• Was a French painter. • The son and pupil of François Bunel, he was born at Blois. • He studied at Rome under Federigo Zuccaro. • On returning to France was made painter to the king, and worked with Pourbus and Toussaint du Breuil. • He was an artist of great merit, and held in much esteem by Henri IV, who employed him at Fontainebleau and other royal residences. • Philip II of Spain, by whom likewise he was esteemed, commissioned him to paint for the cloister of the Escorial forty pictures, all of which have now disappeared. • He died in Paris in 1614.
• He was the brother of François Bunel the Younger, and married the painter Marguerite Bahuche.
