Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Rubens' Women

The portrait of Helena Forman or Fourment, his second wife, married at the age of 16, introduced in several of his historical paintings; but the woman in Rubens and His Wife, in the Munich gallery, is meant for Isabella Brandt, of Antwerp, his first wife.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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Rubber of Whist
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