Helena Tromper Du Bois
Anthony van Dyck
c. 1631
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
99.1 × 88.4 cm (39 × 34 13/16 in.); Framed: 142.2 × 125.1 × 10.1 cm (56 × 49 1/4 × 4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
866
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck · 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...