 Van Dyck, Self-portrait, 1630, oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. |
Van Dyck, together with Rubens, is one of the greatest flemish painters of the 17th Century. He worked with Rubens, but this doesn't mean that he was his master, because Van Dyck was already a consolidated painter when he contacted with him. The influence of Rubens in Van Dyck´s picture is the only thing that we have to realize.
Series of portraits are the most excellent thing among Van Dyck´s production. They are a huge hiscoric information of Baroque world. He also painted compositions about different subjects: mythology, religion and landscapes.
In 1620, Van Dyck was in London working for Jaime I. In 1621, Van Dyck went to Italy. Here, he left his severe style to start painting in an exquisite and refined manner that characterizes him. From 1632 to his death he was working for Charles I. Van Dyck will influence in portrait painters from England like Gainsborough.
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Van Dyck, The Lamentation, 1618-1620, oil on canvas, Art History Museum, Vienna. |
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Van Dyck, Baltazarina von Linick and her son (?), 1618, oil on panel, The Hermitage, St.Petersburg. |
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Van Dyck, Portrait of Maria Lugia de Tassis, 1629, oil on canvas, Collection of the Princes of LIechtenstein, Vaduz. |
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Van Dyck, Rinaldo and Armida, 1629, oil on canvas, Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
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Van Dyck, Henrietta Maria with her dwarf, sir Jeffrey Hudson, 1633, oil on canvas, National Gallery, Washington D.C. |
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Van Dyck, Charles I at the Hunt, 1635, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris. |
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Van Dyck, Philadelphia and Elizabeth Wharton, 1640, oil on canvas, The Hermitage, St.Petersburg. |
Written by:
Beatriz Aragonés Escobar.
Licentiate in Art History.
