 Already in 1649 an inventory of his patron Prince Antonio Ruffo records nine flower paintings by the 18-year-old artist.Ten years later, in 1659, Brueghel moved to Rome, Italy where he married an Italian woman less than a year later.In 1670 he was invited into the Accademia di San Luca, a Roman academy, which had as its objective the elevation of the work of artists.