Portrait of Antonis van Dyck
Oil on canvas
72.4 x 86.1 x 0 cm
Not For Sale
The portrait was probably made in Van Dyck's London studio. It is a replica of the master's self-portrait, which he painted a month before his death. Although the work of one of the assistant painters, this work has all the qualities of Van Dyck's painting, which ranked the great artist among the best portraitists in Europe. The relaxed elegance, spontaneity, as well as psychological approach to the model, had a revolutionary influence on English, but also on European painting.
Exhibitions with this piece
Rubens' Circles
Rubens and his legacy
The oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens, an artist who achieved unprecedented fame throughout Europe already at the beginning of his career and whose paintings in the collections of the most powerful patrons of his time were a measure of prestige has given rise to unending debates on his actual contribution to the enormous number of artworks that came out of his studio. It is clear from the enormity of the number of works bearing the mark of his artistry that, despite his exceptional talent, inexhaustible energy, and fabled speed of painting, he could not possibly have produced all of them without the help of his studio, whose size became the stuff of legend.