Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/ˈruːbənz/ Dutch: 28 June 1577 – ) was a Flemish artist. His fondness for the full figured woman has since spurned the term “Rubenesque,” which is still used in Dutch to refer to such women. Cambridge University also awarded him an honorary Master’s Degree.įour years after the death of his first wife, Rubens, who was 53 years old at the time, was married to a 16 year old named Helene Fourment, whom he used as model in many of his later paintings. ![]() He was knighted by both the Spanish monarch, Philip V, and the English King, Charles I. Between 16, he traveled between England and Spain, in attempts to create a truce between the two nations. Throughout his life, he was relied upon not only as a master painter, but one whose diplomat talents were required by many a court. His most famous students, friends and collaborators were Frans Snyders, Anthony van Dyck, and Jan Brueghel the Elder. This house has now become the Rubenshius Museum. In 1610, Rubens moved into the house that would become his studio, where he taught students and created most of his paintings. He returned to Antwerp upon his mother’s death in 1608, and remained there as a court painter for the Archduke of Austria, and received special privileges as both a painter and a court diplomat. He began his artistic apprenticeship at age fourteen and completed his education in 1598, when he became an independent master painter.ĭuring his career, Rubens traveled to Italy and Spain, and was influenced by the great works of Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, as well as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. His father was imprisoned for the affair and two years after his death, Peter and his family returned to Antwerp, in the Netherlands, and beginning at the age of twelve was raised as a Catholic. Jan Rubens, Peter Paul’s father, began a sordid affair with the woman to whom he was court advisor, Anna of Saxony. In 1568, his mother and father fled the Spanish Netherlands due to persecution of Protestants. Although he was raised as a Catholic and painted Counter-Reformation pieces f or the church, he was born into a Protestant family. The painting was exhibited in 1790 at the Royal Academy as a Portrait of a Gentleman (Mr Wilberforce) and was commissioned by Lord Muncaster, a friend of Wilberforce’s.A Flemish painter, Peter Paul Rubens’ Baroque style emphasized movement, sensuality and color. The painting is by John Rising (1753 – 1817), a portrait painter based in Grosvenor Square, London. It would take a further twenty-six years for Britain and its colonies to abolish slavery. It was not until 1807 that the abolition of the slave trade was passed in Parliament. In 1789 Wilberforce gave an impassionate anti-slave trade speech which lasted over three-and-a-half hours. This oil portrait shows William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) at the age of 29 in 1788, the year in which he took up the cause of the abolition of the slave trade in Parliament. Whilst the popular public abolition movement was growing outside Parliament with petitions and anti-slavery meetings Wilberforce was the chief spoke person against the slave trade in Parliament. His many causes included the reformation of manners amongst the gentry, but his most famous campaign was for the abolition of the slave trade. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a Member of Parliament for Hull and later Yorkshire.
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