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Peter Paul Rubens
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Back in Antwerp, Rubens was finally able to devote himself to his “beloved profession” again. In December 1630 he married the 16-year-old Helena Fourment, youngest daughter of the silk and tapestry merchant Daniel Fourment. Helena was to inspire some of the most personal and poignant portraits of Rubens’s later career, and their marriage was as fruitful as it was blissful, producing five children. Rubens often identified Helena with the goddess Venus, as in his glowing Venus and Adonis (c. 1635). In 1631 Philip IV knighted Rubens—the only painter so honoured by the kings of both England and Spain. Having lost ...(100 of 3406 words)

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