Paulus Pontius
Sir Anthony van Dyck
probably 1626/1641
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8255
About the Artist
Sir Anthony van Dyck · 1599–present
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was a Flemish painter who became one of the most important portraitists in the history of European art. Born in Antwerp, he showed extraordinary precocious talent and entered the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens as a teenager, quickly becoming Rubens's most gifted assistant and an independent master in his own right by the age of eighteen. Van Dyck spent formative ye...