Isabella Brant (or Brandt; 1591 – 15 July 1626) was the first wife of the
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painter
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
, who painted several portraits of her.
Family
She was the eldest daughter of Jan Brant, an important city official in
Antwerp
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Hendrik de Moy
Hendrik de Moy ( Herentals, 21 April 1534 – 15 February 1610, Antwerp) was secretary of the Antwerp city council and a historian.P. Génard, "Aenteekening over den Stadssekretaris Hendrik de Moy / Notice sur le Secrétaire Henri de Moy", ''Antwe ...
. Her aunt Marie de Moy was married to
Phillipe I Rubens, brother of her future husband. Isabella Brant married the brother of her uncle Peter Paul on 3 October 1609 in
St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp
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. They had three children: Clara,
Nicolaas, Lord of Rameyen and
Albert
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. She was 34 years old when she died of the
plague
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.
Jan Brant;
''married to Clara de Moy; daughter of
Hendrik de Moy
Hendrik de Moy ( Herentals, 21 April 1534 – 15 February 1610, Antwerp) was secretary of the Antwerp city council and a historian.P. Génard, "Aenteekening over den Stadssekretaris Hendrik de Moy / Notice sur le Secrétaire Henri de Moy", ''Antwe ...
''.
[“De” Vlaamsche school: algemeen tijdschrift voor kunsten en letteren / Buschmann, 1863]
##Isabella Brant, (1591–1626);
married to
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
.
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Albert Rubens
Albert Rubens (1614–1657), was the eldest son of Peter Paul Rubens and Isabella Brant. His research as a philologist and scholar of antiquity gained him the recognition of fellow scholars throughout Europe. He held an official position in the gov ...
##Hendrik Brant (1594); died in youth.
##Jan Brant (1596); died without children.
##Clara Brant (1599);
married in 1619 to
Daniel II Fourment, Lord of Wijtvliet, brother of
Helena Fourment
Helena Fourment or Hélène Fourment (11 April 1614 – 15 July 1673) was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. She was the subject of a few portraits by Rubens, and also modeled for other religious and mythological paintings.
Fam ...
Works
Several paintings of Brant and
one important drawing of her by Rubens survive, in addition to a portrait of her by Rubens' disciple and assistant,
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh c ...
.
In 1977, Brant appeared on a postage stamp of Anguilla.
Gallery
Image:Peter Paul Rubens (1574-1640) Rubens en Isabella Brant in een prieel van kamperfoelie - Alte Pinakothek.jpg, '' The Honeysuckle Bower'' by Rubens, c. 1609: the painter and Isabella Brant the year of their marriage (Alte Pinakothek
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, Munich
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)
Image:Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Isabella Brant -British Museum 1482535001.jpg, Portrait drawing of Isabella Brant by Rubens, c. 1621 (British Museum
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Image:Peter Paul Rubens 093.jpg, Portrait of Isabella Brant by Anthony van Dyck, c. 1623–1626 (National Gallery of Art
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, Washington, D.C.
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Image:Peter Paul Rubens 092.jpg, Portrait of Isabella Brant by Rubens, c. 1625 (Galleria degli Uffizi
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, Florence
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File:Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Clara Serena Rubens (1611-1623) Rubenshuis Antwerpen 28-5-2016 10-38-59.JPG, ''Clara Serena Rubens'' (1611–1623) - Rubenshuis
The Rubenshuis () is the former home and workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) in Antwerp. Purchased in 1610, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself. After the renovations, the ho ...
Antwerp
Notes
Further reading
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1591 births
1626 deaths
17th-century deaths from plague (disease)
17th-century Dutch women
Models from Antwerp
Family of Peter Paul Rubens
People of the Holy Roman Empire