Otto van Veen

1556 - 1629

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre:  portrait
country of citizenship:  Habsburg Netherlands
native language:  Latin
languages spoken, written or signed:  Latin
occupation:  painter
position held:  court painter

Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized names Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius (1556 – 6 May 1629), was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He is known for his paintings of religious and mythological scenes, allegories and portraits, which he produced in his large workshop in Antwerp. He further designed several emblem books, and was from 1594 or 1595 to 1598 the teacher of Rubens. His role as a classically educated humanist artist (a pictor doctus), was influential on the young Rubens, who would take on that role himself. He was court painter of successive governors of the Habsburg Netherlands, including the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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