Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of the Artist - Google Art Project

''Self-Portrait'' is a 1623 self-portrait in oils on canvas by

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradit ...

, signed and dated by the artist. He produced it to send to Charles Prince of Wales (the future

Charles I Charles I may refer to: Kings and emperors * Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings * Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily * Charles I of ...

) and it is still in the Royal Collection.

Sources

*''Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting'', London, 2007 *''Portrait of the Artist'', London, 2016 *https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/400156/a-self-portrait {{17C-painting-stub 1623 paintings Rubens Rubens Rubens Paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom Portraits by Peter Paul Rubens