Otto van Veen

1556-1629

Painted Apollo and Venus. Flemish artist. 

Painter Peter Paul Rubens was one of his workshop pupils. 

He probably was a pupil of Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg until October 1572, when the Catholic family moved to Antwerp and then to Liège. He studied under Dominicus Lampsonius and Jean Ramey for a time before traveling to Rome around 1574 or 1575. He stayed there for about five years, perhaps studying with Federico Zuccari.