biography
| name: |
van Dyck, Sir Anthony
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pronunciation:
[diyk]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1599–1641)
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| biography:
| Painter, one of the great masters of portraiture, born in Antwerp, N Belgium. He worked under Rubens, who greatly influenced his style, visited England in 1620, and from 1621 travelled widely in Italy, where he painted portraits and religious subjects. By 1627 he was back in Antwerp, and in 1632 went to London, where he was knighted by Charles I, and made painter-in-ordinary. His work greatly influenced the British school of portraiture in the 18th-c. His paintings of the royal family and other notables of the time left a thoroughly romantic glimpse of the Stuart monarchy. |
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