Arnold Frans Rubens

Arnold Frans (or Francesco) Rubens or Rubbens (1687–1719) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in cabinet pictures of landscapes and battle scenes.

[2][3] Rubens was born in Antwerp as the son of art dealer Arnold Rubbens and Catharina Pannens.

[6] He was influenced by the Antwerp painter Jan Baptist van der Meiren who was commercially successful with paintings depicting similar subjects.

He was, however, negative about the manner in which Rubens painted horses and accused him even of copying prints by the German painter of battle scenes Georg Philipp Rugendas.

In contrast, Weyerman was positive about the character of Rubens, whom he described as follows: In addition, that little artist is very obliging and friendly for someone born in Antwerp whose citizens are usually so proud and unfriendly to foreigners like so many inflated Lucifers, and clearly show they have descended from the Duke of Alva's Spanish officers and soldiers ....[6] Works of Arnold Frans Rubens are in the collection of the Hermitage Museum.