A continental town square with street vendors by a fountain and boys leading mules with flower baskets

Jan Antoon Garemyn was greatly influenced by Jacob Beemaert and the works of Antoine Watteau and François Boucher, whose works he encountered when he studied at the Bruges Académie. Garemyn was particularly well-known for his picturesque views of everyday life and was patronised by various levels of society, including the clergy, the nobility, and the middle class, who admired the warmth of his colour palette and the harmony of his compositions.