Flemish painter, part of a family of artists, son of Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Elder and half-brother to Balthasar Hyacinth Verbruggen (1680-1714), who later became his pupil. He became master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1677 when he was only aged 13, and became its deacon in 1691. From the early 1680s, he taught several painters such as Peter Frans Casteels (1686-1727), Gillis Vinck the Elder (active 1697-98) and Jacob Melchior van Herck (active 1691-1735). He was active in Antwerp (1677-1705), Amsterdam (1705-06), The Hague (1706-23), and Antwerp again (1723-30), where he died. //