Portrait of a Flemish Lady
Sir Anthony van Dyck
probably 1618
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 123 x 90 cm (48 7/16 x 35 7/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1940.1.14
About the Artist
Sir Anthony van Dyck · 1599–present
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...