Charles II by Anthony van Dyck|Wenceslaus Hollar|Charles, Prince of Wales

Medium

Etching; third state of six (NH)

Dimensions

Sheet: 10 in. × 7 5/16 in. (25.4 × 18.6 cm) cut on the platemark

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

Accession Number

17.3.985

Tags

BoysPortraits

About the Artist

Anthony van Dyck|Wenceslaus Hollar|Charles, Prince of Wales · 15991641

Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who revolutionized portrait painting and became the most influential court painter in 17th-century England. Born in Antwerp as the seventh of twelve children to a prosperous silk merchant, van Dyck displayed extraordinary artistic talent from childhood. He trained under Hendrick van Balen before joining Peter Paul Rubens's workshop as a...

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