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1638 In Art
This is a list of events that occurred in the year 1638 in art. Events *Anthony van Dyck is granted denizenship by Charles I of England and marries Mary, daughter of Lord Ruthven; his assistant Adriaen Hanneman returns to his native Hague to become the leading portraitist there. *Francisco Zurbarán begins work on the series of paintings in the Santa María de Guadalupe Works *Gian Lorenzo Bernini – '' Bust of Thomas Baker'' *Frans Hals – '' Claes Duyst van Voorhout'' * Hubert Le Sueur – Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross (London) *Nicolas Poussin – ''Et in Arcadia ego'' (''Les bergers d'Arcadie'', Louvre) *Rembrandt **''Landscape with the Good Samaritan'' ** ''Stormy Landscape'' *Peter Paul Rubens **'' The Massacre of the Innocents'' (second version – ''approximate date'') **'' The Judgement of Paris'' (second version – ''approximate date'') * Justus Sustermans – ''Portrait of Galileo Galilei'' *Anthony van Dyck – some dates approximate **''Equestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy Antwerp silk merchant, Anthony painted from an early age. He was successful as an independent painter in his late teens, and became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1618. By this time he was working in the studio of the leading northern painter of the day, Peter Paul Rubens, who became a major influence on his work. Van Dyck worked in London for some months in 1621, then returned to Flanders for a brief time, before travelling to Italy, where he stayed until 1627, mostly in Genoa. In the late 1620s he completed his greatly admired ''Iconography'' series of portrait etchings, mostly of other artists. He spent five years in Flanders after his return from Italy, and from 1630 was court painter for the arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
