Oil on canvas with remains of old gallery label pasted to stretcher verso. In as found condition. After the portrait of 1634, previously in the collection of King Charles I at Hampton Court and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museum, Berlin (acc. no. 782).
Height 113 cm Width 102cm

Ref: 25667

Sir Anthony van Dyck 1599 -1641. Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy silk merchant in Antwerp, Anthony painted from an early age. He was successful as an independent painter in his late teens and became a master in the Antwerp Guild on 18 October 1617. By this time, he was working in the studio of the leading northern painter of the day, Peter Paul Rubens, who became a major influence on his work. Rubens referred to the nineteen-year-old van Dyck as “the best of my pupils”.

For comparison purposes only: The framed image we have illustrated below is the original 1634 painting by Van Dyck that now hangs in the Berlin Museum with an estimated value in the millions of pounds. It too measures exactly the same as the Victorian oil painting after Van Dyck we are selling here.