Anthony van Dyck facts for kids

Self Portrait With a Sunflower showing the gold collar and medal King Charles I gave him in 1633. The sunflower may represent the king, or royal patronage.

Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist. He was the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court. His style of painting was used for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects.

Images for kids

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  Self-portrait, 1613–14

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  Genoan hauteur from the Lomellini family, 1623

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  Grisaille sketch of Magistrates of Brussels, in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris

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  Anthony van Dyck, by Peter Paul Rubens (1627–28)

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  Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart, c. 1638, exemplifies the more intimate, but still elegant style he developed in England

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  Charles I at the Hunt, c. 1635, Louvre

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  Christ carrying the Cross

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  Henrietta Maria and the dwarf, Sir Jeffrey Hudson, 1633

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  The Cheeke Sisters, a late double portrait

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  Pieter Brueghel the Younger from the Iconography; etching by van Dyck

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  Charles I in Three Positions (1635–36), a triple portrait of Charles I, was sent to Rome for Bernini to model a bust on. Royal Collection

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  Bewening van Christus, 1635, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

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  Christ Crowned with Thorns (c. 1620) in the Prado

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  Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile, Genoa, ca. 1622

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  Elena Grimaldi, Genoa, 1623

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  Nicholas Lanier, 1628

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  The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph c. 1629–30

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  Rest on the Flight into Egypt, ca. 1630, Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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  Marie-Louise de Tassis, Antwerp, 1630

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  Charles I with M. de St Antoine, 1633

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  Equestrian Portrait of Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, 1634

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  Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon, c. 1636–40, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art

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  Equestrian Portrait of Charles I, c. 1637–38

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  Portrait of Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew, 1638

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  Princess Mary, Daughter of Charles I, about 1637, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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  The apostle Matthew, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

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  Portrait of Sir George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English Royalist politician with William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford ("War and Peace"), 1637, Althorp

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  Portrait of Jacques Le Roy, 1631. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.

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  Portrait of Mary, daughter of Charles I with her husband the Prince of Orange, 1641. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.