Sir Anthony van Dyck
(1599-1641), PainterSitter associated with 30 portraits
Artist associated with 1023 portraits
Sir Anthony van Dyck was by far the most influential painter to have worked in Britain during the seventeenth century. Flemish by birth, he found patronage in a number of European countries, but his longest stay was in England, which he made his home from the beginning of his second visit in 1632 until his death in 1641 (with a break back in Antwerp in 1634-5). While his predecessors from the Low Countries had brought to Britain hints of what painting might become, it was van Dyck who decisively turned British portraiture away from the stiff, formal 'iconic' approach of Tudor and Jacobean painting. In England he developed the distinctive fluid, shimmering style that was to dominate portraiture in Britain not just during the seventeenth century but right up until the early years of the twentieth century. Rewarded by his most famous patron, Charles I, with a knighthood, his enduring influence - and a sense that it would be impossible to better him - was universally recognised and remarked on not only by his contemporaries but also by his successors.
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Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke
by Pierre Lombart, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
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Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset
by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
etching, mid 17th century
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James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D26574
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
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Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D26602
Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke
by Pierre Lombart, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D26634
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester and Edward Littleton, Baron Littleton
possibly by William Faithorne, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens and Sir Anthony van Dyck
by Paulus Pontius (Paulus Du Pont), after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
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by Johannes Meyssens, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28257
by Lucas Vorsterman, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28269
by Lucas Vorsterman, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28277
Stevers (Stevens, Stevaerts) (Palamedes, Palamedesz)
by Paulus Pontius (Paulus Du Pont), after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28281
by Lucas Vorsterman, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28282
by Lucas Vorsterman, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28283
by Paulus Pontius (Paulus Du Pont), after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28297
by Paulus Pontius (Paulus Du Pont), after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28298
by Paulus Pontius (Paulus Du Pont), after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28303
by Paulus Pontius (Paulus Du Pont), after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28304
by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
etching, mid 17th century
NPG D28343
by Lucas Vorsterman the Younger, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, mid 17th century
NPG D28351
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