Carel Breydel or Karel Breydel (1678 - 1733),

was a Flemish painter of battle pieces, equestrian paintings and landscapes. Karel Breydel was an older brother of Frans Breydel, who became court painter in Kassel. He was in Antwerp a pupil of Pieter Rijsbraeck for three years and then of Peter Ykens. He left for a trip to Italy and travelled via Frankfurt and Nuremberg. When he heard about his brother's success in Kassel, he abandoned his plans to go to Italy and travelled instead to Kassel to join his brother. Here the two brothers worked together for two years with considerable success. Breydel then travelled to Amsterdam. He was back in Antwerp in 1703 where he became a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1704.