Antoine Van Dyck

Sir Anthony ( Antoon ) Van Dyck (March 22nd, 1599, Antwerp - December 9th, 1641, Blackfriars, close to London) is a painter Baroque, especially portraitist, Flemish, who was the principal painter of court in England. He was also a Master of the etching.

Biography

Wire of a commercial rich person of textile, Antoon Van Dyck was born with Antwerp and became independent painter in 1615. After noticebeing noticed by its talent, it started by being the principal assistant of Petrus Paulus Rubens between 1610 and 1614. In 1620, it left in England for the first time but does not succeed in being made present to the king Jacques I {{er}} of England. Four months later, it set out again in Flandres. It remained then in Italy where it studied during six years the Italian Masters such as Titien and Véronèse and where it threw the foundations of its career of portraitist with success. It settled more precisely with Genoa where it decorated the sumptuous palates with noble Génois of religious tables and portraits in which it always emphasized the important social position of its models. In 1627, it went back to Antwerp where it painted a great quantity of masterpieces during several years. Its reputation arrived at the ears of Charles I {{er}} of England which pointed out it. In 1632, Van Dyck turned over to London. Its success in England was fast. It carried out portraits of king Charles, Henriette of England, the girl of the king, and innumerable characters of the court in addition to its self-portraits and portraits of its mistress, Margaret Lemon. At the end of its life, it was satisfied to bring the final key to the portraits painted for the greatest part by its disciples according to its drafts.

It was made knight on July 5th, 1632, and was appointed first ordinary painter of Its Majesty in 1633. It received a strong pension and married the girl of Lord Ruthven. Sir Anthony Van Dyck created for the court of England of works in which the capacity of the king as an absolute monarch continues. In 1634, it made a court travels to Antwerp and another in France in 1641.

Antoine Van Dyck died in London in 1641 and was buried with the cathedral Saint-Paul.

Van Dyck had a great influence on the English portraitists and, consequently, one often regards it as the creator of the English École of painting.

A pigment of oil-base paint, the brown van Dyck , owes him its name, as well as a photographic process , the Procédé Van Dyke.

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