Portrait of Nicolaas Rockox.
Oil on Panel 18.3 x 13.8 Inches c. 1600 Otto van Veen Provenance: Permanent Collection Rubenshuis, Antwerp. http://www.rubenshuis.be/Museum_Rubenshuis_EN At the time of this painting, I was incarnate, female and exceptionally beautiful. I was then a muse of both Otto van Veen and later his famous student, Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Apparently, owing to his ‘shortcomings’, […]