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Belgian publisher and entrepreneur
One of his printed pages from 1827.

Philippus Jacobus Brepols (1778 – 1845) was a Belgian publisher and founder of the Brepols printing family-business in Turnhout, Belgium.

Life and work

In 1795, Pieter Corbeels, a printer from Leuven moved together with his assistant Philippus Jacobus Brepols, to Turnhout, possibly to flee the French military which occupied the Austrian Netherlands at that time.

Since Corbeels was executed for his fight against the French, his apprentice Philippus Jacobus Brepols, had to take over the responsibility for the printing company.

The widow of Corbeels managed the business for short while, but from 1800 onwards P.J. Brepols gradually took over the house and the business. On 3 January 1845 P.J. Brepols died and the company was continued by his only daughter Antoinette Brepols, who in 1820 had married Jan Jozef Dierckx, a merchant.

Brepols published popular prints such as catchpenny prints and devotionalia. The prints where originally in black and white but many of them where hand-colored by later owners.

Gallery

  • Illustrated poetry for children Illustrated poetry for children
  • Animals with poems in Dutch and French Animals with poems in Dutch and French
  • Print about fashion Print about fashion
  • Soldiers; military music Soldiers; military music

Sources

  • Roland Baetens (Ed.), Harry de Kok, Pierre Delsaerdt, Gerrit de Vijlder and Ludo Simons, Brepols drukkers en uitgevers 1796-1996, Brepols, 1996.
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