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Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens, self-portrait in oil, c. 1638; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
In 1603, Peter Paul Rubens traveled to Spain on his first diplomatic assignment. He was sent by Vincenzo I Gonzaga, the duke of Mantua, to present a shipment of paintings to King Philip III.1