Alessandro Grevenbroeck belonged to a Dutch family of painters who lived in Italy for a generation. Little is known about him. He was a landscape painter working in the style of Claude Lorrain. He painted a naval battle scene for Tsar Peter the Great that was intended for the Peterhof Palace. Similar marine paintings and landscapes by Grevenbroeck were dated 1717, 1737 and 1747, all of which he painted in Venice or the Veneto. //