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Anthony van Dyck · 1634
Anthony van Dyck: 1599–1641
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Biography
Sir Anthony van Dyck (; Dutch: Antoon van Dijck [ˈɑntoːɱ‿vɑn ˈdɛik]; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a 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 Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp 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.
Van Dyck worked in London for some months in 1621, then returned to Flanders for a brief time, before travelling to Italy, where he stayed until 1627, mostly in Genoa. In the late 1620s he completed his greatly admired Iconography series of portrait etchings of mainly other artists and other famous contemporaries. He spent five years in Flanders after his return from Italy, and from 1630 was court painter for the Archduchess Isabella, Habsburg Governor of Flanders. At the request of Charles I he returned in 1632 to London as the main court painter.
With the exception of Holbein, van Dyck and his contemporary Diego Velázquez were the first painters of pre-eminent talent to work mainly as court portraitists, revolutionising the genre. Van Dyck is best known for his portraits of the aristocracy, most notably Charles I, and his family and associates. He was the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for over 150 years. He also painted mythological, allegorical and biblical subjects, including altarpieces, displayed outstanding facility as a draughtsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching.
His influence extends into the modern period. The Van Dyke beard is named after him. During his lifetime, Charles I granted him a knighthood, and he was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, an indication of his standing at the time of his death.
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Anthony van Dyck. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art29 recorded works
- Museo Nacional del Prado25 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art23 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago21 recorded works
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie21 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art16 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre12 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon10 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly7 recorded works
- National Gallery5 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)5 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts4 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum3 recorded works
- Tate3 recorded works
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna2 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes2 recorded works
- Alte Pinakothek — Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen1 recorded work
- Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden1 recorded work
- Hermitage Museum1 recorded work
- Mauritshuis1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Strasbourg1 recorded work
- musée du château de Flers — Flers1 recorded work
- Palazzo Pitti1 recorded work
- Royal Collection1 recorded work
- Scottish National Gallery1 recorded work
- Tyrolean State Museum1 recorded work
- Walters Art Museum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Tate Collection metadata (October 2014 snapshot)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
