Peter Paul Rubens with his Wife and Child
Date
ca. 1746 - 1765Period
18th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Peter Paul Rubens enjoyed a high reputation in Great Britain throughout the eighteenth century, and prints after his work were published in large numbers. McArdell's mezzotint of Rubens's own family was the first of two such prints published in London after the charming domestic subject; the other was by Charles Phillips. Rubens, his wife Helena, and one of their sons…
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Peter Paul Rubens enjoyed a high reputation in Great Britain throughout the eighteenth century, and prints after his work were published in large numbers. McArdell's mezzotint of Rubens's own family was the first of two such prints published in London after the charming domestic subject; the other was by Charles Phillips. Rubens, his wife Helena, and one of their sons appear within an idealized version of the garden at his mansion in Antwerp.
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