Head of a Young Man

Head of a Young Man by Sir Anthony van Dyck

Medium

oil on paper on panel

Dimensions

overall: 51.2 x 41.4 cm (20 3/16 x 16 5/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CNE-B

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Adolph Caspar Miller

Accession Number

1953.3.2

About the Artist

Sir Anthony van Dyck · 1599present

Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was a Flemish painter who became one of the most important portraitists in the history of European art. Born in Antwerp, he showed extraordinary precocious talent and entered the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens as a teenager, quickly becoming Rubens's most gifted assistant and an independent master in his own right by the age of eighteen. Van Dyck spent formative ye...

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