Anthony van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck
n.d.
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on pale brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
22.8 × 18.4 cm (9 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84119
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck · 1599–1641
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who revolutionized portrait painting and became the most influential court painter in 17th-century England. Born in Antwerp as the seventh of twelve children to a prosperous silk merchant, van Dyck displayed extraordinary artistic talent from childhood. He trained under Hendrick van Balen before joining Peter Paul Rubens's workshop as a...