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Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens, self-portrait in oil, c. 1638; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Peter Paul Rubens began his artistic training in Antwerp in 1591. During his apprenticeship years in the city, he studied under three different artists:
- Tobias Verhaecht: A kinsman and landscape painter with whom Rubens began his training in 1591.1
- Adam van Noort: Rubens moved to his studio in 1592 and remained there for four years.1
- Otto van Veen: Following his time with van Noort, Rubens was apprenticed to this leading Antwerp artist and dean of the paintersâ guild of St. Luke. Van Veen was instrumental in teaching Rubens to view painting as a lofty humanistic profession.1