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Sir Anthony van Dyck Biography

(1599 - 1641)

Related Works

1633 Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed (Dulwich Picture Gallery)
1634 Lamentation for Christ (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
1635 Prince Thomas of Savoy (Galleria Sabauda, Turin, Italy)

c.1618–20 Portrait of Corneles van der Geest (National Gallery, London)
c.1620-21 The Taking of Christ (Prado, Madrid)
1622 Sir Robert and Lady Shirley (National Trust, Petworth, Sussex)
c.1624–8 Madonna of the Rosary (Congregazione del Rosario, Palermo, Italy)
1630 Philippe Le Roy, Seigneur de Ravels (Wallace Collection, London)
c.1630 Prince Rupert of the Palantine (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
1635 Charles I: King of England at the Hunt (Louvre, Paris)
1637 Cupid and Psyche (Buckingham Palace, London)
1638 Charles I on Horseback (National Gallery, London)
Children of Charles 1 (Wilton House, Salisbury, England)

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(born March 22, 1599, Antwerp, Belg.—died Dec. 9, 1641, London, Eng.) Flemish painter. Son of a well-to-do silk merchant, he was apprenticed to an Antwerp painter at 10. He soon came under the influence of Peter Paul Rubens, for his early works are painted in Rubens's Baroque style, though with darker and warmer colour, more abrupt chiaroscuro, and more angular figures. He was a master in the Antwerp artists' guild by 19, at which time he was also working with Rubens. He spent over five years in Italy (1621–27); on his return, he received many commissions for altarpieces and portraits. He also executed works on mythological subjects and was a fine draftsman and etcher, but he is chiefly known for his portraits, in which he idealized his models without sacrificing their individuality. In Britain in 1632, he was appointed court painter by Charles I. He gained a comfortable income from the many portraits he painted in Britain, and his life matched his clients' in luxury. His influence was pervasive and lasting; Flemish, Dutch, and German portraitists imitated his style and technique, and the 18th-century English portraitists, especially Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, were deeply indebted to him.