Family Of Jan Brueghel The Elder By Peter Paul Rubens At The National Gallery In London Room 20 Editorial Image

This tender portrait celebrates Rubens’s friendship with his frequent collaborator Jan Brueghel the Elder, in whose pictures Rubens often contributed the figures. At the heart of this intimate group is Catharina, Jan’s second wife, who draws her two children, Pieter and Elisabeth, close to her, the former endearingly toying with his mother’s bracelet. artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens`s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.