The increasingly lush still lifes of the Flemish painters Frans Snyders, Jan Fyt and Pieter Boel who had also worked in Italy were the principal influences on Abraham Brueghel. Joannes Hermans, another Flemish painter in Rome also painted grandiose still lifes combining human figures, flowers and fruit, which anticipated the arrival in Rome in 1653 of Abraham Brueghel.
The opulent still life paintings by Flemish artists Frans Snyders, Jan Fyt, and Pieter Boel, who had also worked in Italy, were a significant influence on Abraham Brueghel's work. Joannes Hermans, another Flemish painter in Rome, created similar compositions combining human figures, flowers, and fruit, which foreshadowed the arrival of Abraham Brueghel in Rome in 1653.