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(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Anthony van Dyck
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anthony van Dyck

Antwerp, 1599 - 1641, London
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BiographyBorn the seventh of twelve children to a wealthy silk merchant in Belgium, Anthony van Dyck began to paint at an early age. By the age of nineteen, he had become a teacher in Antwerp. Soon afterward, he collaborated and trained with the famous Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. He studied and worked in Venice and Paris. Van Dyck was famed as a portrait painter in France and England, creating portraits for Charles I and Louis XIV. Flemish painter.
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Last Updated8/7/24