Anthony van Dyck
22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque painter who became the leading court portraitist in England as principal painter to King Charles I. Trained in Antwerp and an assistant to Peter Paul Rubens, he developed an elegant, relaxed portrait style that influenced English portraiture for over a century.
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Life events
Anthony van Dyck was born in Antwerp, the seventh child of a prosperous silk merchant.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAround age ten, Van Dyck began his artistic training in the Antwerp workshop of Hendrick van Balen.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVan Dyck became the most important assistant in Rubens's Antwerp studio, absorbing the master's style.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVan Dyck was enrolled as a free master in the Antwerp painters' guild while still a teenager.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVan Dyck spent six years in Italy studying Titian and painting portraits of the Genoese aristocracy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVan Dyck settled in England, where Charles I made him 'principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties' and knighted him.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVan Dyck was knighted at St James's Palace in July 1632.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVan Dyck married Mary Ruthven, granddaughter of the Earl of Gowrie, in London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgVan Dyck died at his house in Blackfriars, London, and was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral.
Source: en.wikipedia.org