Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland
Medium
Etching; first state of three (New Hollstein)
Dimensions
Sheet (clipped impression): 10 7/8 × 7 1/2 in. (27.6 × 19.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1917
Accession Number
17.21.25
Tags
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck|Wenceslaus Hollar|Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland · 1599–1641
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...