Deborah Kip, Wife of Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and Her Children

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Peter Paul Rubens was born in Antwerp, the son of a lawyer. He became master of the Guild of Painters of Antwerp in 1598. In 1600, he visited Italy to study ancient sculpture and the Old Masters. He returned in 1608 and was appointed court painter by Archduke Albert. He mainly produced biblical subjects, completing some 60 altarpieces in the late 1610s and early 1620s. He became Advisor and Agent to Archduchess Isabella, helping unite the Netherlands. From 1629 he was Secretary to the Privy Council of the Netherlands, visiting London to achieve an Anglo-Spanish peace agreement. During this visit he accepted several commissions, including ceiling canvases for the Banqueting House for Charles I. In 1630 he returned to Antwerp. He died at 62.

People

Deborah (Gerbier) Kip (1601 - ), George Gerbier D'Ouvilly , Gerbier Children

Places

Subjects

group portrait, genre, boy, baby, woman, girl, 17th century costume, dress, necklace, family, column, balcony, domestic interior, curtain, chair

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
William Jett
James MacArdell (1729 - 1765)

Title

Deborah Kip, Wife of Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and Her Children

Date

published 1755

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Transferred from the British Museum, July 1946

Provenance

Collection of the British Museum; by whom transferred to the Ministry of Works in 1946

GAC number

247