Jan Brueghel the Elder
Anthony van Dyck
1630/33
Medium
Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 24.3 × 15.1 cm (9 5/8 × 6 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28361
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...