Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(1525<>1530 - 1569)
 

Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Circa 1558
Oil on canvas mounted on wood
73 x 112 cm
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collectie/pieter-i-bruegel-de-val-van-icarus?artist=bruegel-brueghel-pieter-i-1

 

This is the only known example of Bruegel's use of a scene from mythology, and he bases his figures and landscape quite closely on the myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus as told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses 8, 183–235. The painting which Auden saw was thought until recently to be by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, though it is still believed to be based on a lost original of his. The painting portrays several men and a ship peacefully performing daily activities in a charming landscape. While this occurs, Icarus is visible in the bottom right hand corner of the picture, his legs splayed at absurd angles, drowning in the water. There is also a Flemish proverb (of the sort imaged in other works by Bruegel): "And the farmer continued to plough..." (En de boer ... hij ploegde voort") pointing out the indifference of people to fellow men's suffering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_Icarus

From the poem “Musee des Beaux Arts “ by W.H. Auden:

 

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.