Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Sir Anthony van Dyck

   He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draftsman, and was an important innovator in watercolor and etching.

Sir Anthony Van Dyck

 

Personal Details

Name

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Place of birth

Antwerp

Date of Birth

22 March 1599

Date of Death

9 December 1641

Nationality

Flemish

Field

Artist Painter



Career:

       Van Dyck was born to prosperous parents in Antwerp. His talent was evident very early, and he was studying painting with Hendrick van Balen by 1609, and became an independent painter around 1615, setting up a workshop with his even younger friend Jan Bruegel the Younger. By the age of fifteen he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his Self-portrait, 1613-14, shows. He was admitted to the Antwerp painters' Guild of Saint Luke as a free master by February 1618. Within a few years he was to be the chief assistant to the dominant master of Antwerp, and the whole of Northern Europe, Peter Paul Rubens, who made much use of sub-contracted artists as well as his own large workshop.

   Works Of Sir Anthony van Dyck:

Work  done by Anthiny van Dyck

Work done by Sir Anthony van Dyck