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Arnold Frans Rubens or Rubbens (1687–1719) was a Flemish
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
at the Nouvelle Biographie Nationale He married in 1710 with Ursula Verbist. The couple had two daughters and three sons of whom one was called Peter Pauwel. Jacob de Vil became his pupil in 1715-1716. The artist died young in Antwerp.
In his biographies of Dutch painters published between 1729 and 1769, the Dutch biographer
Arnold Frans Rubens or Rubbens (1687–1719) was a Flemish Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
painter who specialized in cabinet pictures
A cabinet painting (or "cabinet picture") is a small painting, typically no larger than two feet (0.6 meters) in either dimension, but often much smaller. The term is especially used for paintings that show full-length figures or landscapes at a s ...
of landscapes and battle scenes.Biographical detailsat the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Life
Rubens was born inAntwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
as the son of art dealer Arnold Rubbens and Catharina Pannens. Little is known about his life and training. He may have studied mainly on his own by copying paintings and prints that were available in his father's shop.Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, p. 1206-1207 He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1715-1716.Biographical detailsat the Nouvelle Biographie Nationale He married in 1710 with Ursula Verbist. The couple had two daughters and three sons of whom one was called Peter Pauwel. Jacob de Vil became his pupil in 1715-1716. The artist died young in Antwerp.
Work
His work consists mainly of cabinet paintings that depict landscapes and battle scenes. Many of his landscapes are river landscapes or seascapes. The battles are often placed in antiquity or an oriental setting. He also copied paintings of his famous namesake Peter Paul Rubens to whom he is not believed to have been directly related. He was influenced by the Antwerp painterJan Baptist van der Meiren
Jan Baptist van der MeirenName variations: Jan-Baptiste van der Meiren, H. v.d. Moiron (Antwerp, 1664 – in or after 1708) was a Flemish painter specializing in small, usually animated landscapes, harbour views and battle scenes with numerous ...
who was commercially successful with paintings depicting similar subjects.
In his biographies of Dutch painters published between 1729 and 1769, the Dutch biographer Jacob Campo Weyerman
Jacob Campo Weyerman (9 August 1677 – 9 March 1747) was a painter and writer during the period known as the Dutch Enlightenment. His work encompassed flower and fruit still life paintings, satirical magazines, plays, and biographies of painters ...
showed appreciation for Rubens' depiction of the faces of soldiers and palette. He was, however, negative about the manner in which Rubens painted horses and accused him even of copying prints by the German painter of battle scenes Georg Philipp Rugendas
Georg Philipp Rugendas (27 November 1666 – 1742) was a battle and military genre painter and engraver born in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg in what is now Bavaria, Germany.
Biography
He was a pupil of Isaak Fisches, an historical painter, ...
. In contrast, Weyerman was positive about the character of Rubens, whom he described as follows:
Works of Arnold Frans Rubens are in the collection of the Hermitage Museum.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubens, Arnold Frans Flemish landscape painters Flemish war artists Artists from Antwerp 1687 births 1719 deaths