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Peter Paul Rubens
Biography
As any successful painter will tell you it takes more than mere talent to be a successful painter. Colleges and universities today turn out talented painters by the thousands but few ever go on to anything like the success of an enthusiastic, energetic, intelligent, and very personable Flemish youth who decided in his late teens he wanted to be an artist, then moved the necessary mountains to do so.
His name was Peter Paul Rubens.
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He was born in 1577 in Germany. His father, a Protestant, had fled Antwerp, in Holland, to escape religious persecution. The elder Rubens died when Peter was a child of ten so his mother, a Catholic, moved her young brood back to Holland and a life of the severest poverty imaginable.
Little is known of the young man's early art education, but he must have been an apt pupil because at the tender age of 21, he was admitted to the Antwerp painter�s guild.
Lacking funds to set up his own studio, he worked as an artist in the s