PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640) Nicolaas Rockox Oil on wood (56 x 65 cm) To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Rubens was one of the greatest, most energetic and most fruitful artists whose output, in its variety, extent and quality, has rarely been achieved by any. Although Peter Paul …
Category: Flemish Artists
The Travelling Earl
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of the Earl of Denbigh (1633-34) Oil on canvas 247 x 148 cm The National Gallery, London To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" William Feilding (c.1582-1643), first Earl of Denbigh, was very well-connected. In 1607 he married the sister of George Villiers, soon …
Jacob van Reygersberg
ROMBOUT VERHULST (1624-1698) Bust of Jacob van Reygersberg (1671) Marble: Height: 63 cm - Width: 57 - Depth: 33 cm Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Rombout Verhulst was one of the finest Flemish sculptors of the XVIIth century. Born in Malines, …
A Prospect
JAN SIBERECHT (1627-1703) Wollaton Hall and Park, Nottinghamshire (1697) Oil on canvas 192 x 138 cm Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Jan Siberecht was born in Antwerp, the son of a sculptor of the same name. He trained with …
Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie
PAUL VAN SOMER (1576-1621) Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie (1619) Oil on canvas 206 x 123 cm Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Paul van Somer was one of the leading portraitists at the court of James I. His style was …
A Mother and her Daughter
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of Susanna Fourment and her Daughter Clara (1620-22) Oil on canvas 173 x 117 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The sitters have been identified with complete certainty. Susanna Fourment (1599-1628) and her daughter belonged to …
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1616/18) Oil on canvas 207 x 137 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This moving painting highlights the extraordinary skill and confidence of the young van Dyck, who painted this brilliant Lamentation at the …
Head of a Woman
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Head of a Woman (1618-20) Oil on paper, mounted on panel 49 x 46 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum/Museum of Art History, Vienna To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This oil sketch is akin to the studies from live male models that van Dyck transformed by …
Father and Son
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of a man and a boy (1618-20) Oil on panel 115 x 82 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The following paragraphs belong to the excellent monography about Anton van Dyck by the American art historian Alfred Moir …
Allegory of Painting
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