Jan Rubens, his father was a lawyer and Antwerp alderman. When converted from Catholicism to Calvinism Flanders had to leave for exile in Siegen (Germany), where he was born Paul Rubens. On the death of his father in 1587, his mother returned with her children in Antwerp, returning to convert to Catholicism.
Economic scarcity led to work as a page for the court until he decided to become a painter. His first artistic training was made 1591, with Verhaecht Tobias, a Flemish painter of landscapes. Then formed in the workshop of Adam van Noort and Otto van Veen. They were all minor Flemish painters influenced by the mannerism of the sixteenth century Florentine-Roman school.
In 1598, at age 21, concluded his training master passing the exam to the Guild of St. Lucas Antwerp and traveled to Italy to expand his artistic training by studying the works of the Renaissance. In Venice he was attracted by the works of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, who have great influence on production. There he met a nobleman who recommended him for work in the court of the Duke of Mantua, Vincenzo Gonzaga, who hired him for a period of nine years. 
In 1608, the failing health of his mother forced him to return to Antwerp. He married Isabella Brant in 1609, was considered the most important painter of Flanders and required as a court painter of Austrian Archduke Albert and his wife, Princess English Isabel, who ruled the Netherlands as viceroys for the king of Spain.
Rubens's fame spread to all European courts and received so many orders that had to create at home a large workshop, in which he only performed the initial sketch and final touches while his apprentices charge of the intermediate stages.
In 1628 the Flemish viceroys send it to Spain. Was in the service of Philip IV, who appointed him secretary of his Privy Council and was a mentor to the young English painter Diego Velázquez.
Finally, died on May 30, 1640 en su casa de Amberes, a punto de cumplir los 63 años. Su pintura ha ejercido enorme influencia en otros artistas como Jean Antoine Watteau, Delacroix o Auguste Renoir.
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