Venus, Mars and Cupid (detail), Peter Paul Rubens, Dulwich Picture Gallery collection

the collection

Gallery II

The Sainsbury Room

Flemish

Rubens: detail from Venus, Mars and Cupid

Flemish

This room pays tribute to Rubens and Van Dyck who are arguably two of the best known Flemish artists of the 17th-century.  Dulwich Picture Gallery holds an outstanding series of Rubens’s paintings and Van Dyck is remarkably represented through every phase of his career.  Important paintings in this gallery are Rubens’s Venus and Mars and sketches and three portraits by Van Dyck.  David Teniers also features prominently in this room;  in fact, he is perhaps one of the best represented artists in Dulwich Picture Gallery’s collection.