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Queen Henrietta Maria
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Queen Henrietta Maria

Anthony van Dyck

1636

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

QueensPortraitsWomenCrowns

Dimensions

41 5/8 × 33 1/4 in. (105.7 × 84.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman in honor of Annette de la Renta, 2019

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Anthony van Dyck

1599–1641 • Spanish Netherlands

Born the seventh of twelve children to a wealthy silk merchant in Belgium, Anthony van Dyck began to paint at an early age. By the age of nineteen, he had become a teacher in Antwerp. Soon afterward, he collaborated and trained with the famous Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. He studied and worked in Venice and Paris. Van Dyck was famed as a portrait painter in France and England, creating portraits for Charles I and Louis XIV. Comment on works: Portraits; Religious; History.

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