ANTHON VAN DYCK

Life and works

Anthony Van Dyck the famous Flemish Baroque painter was born in Antwerp in 1599.

This man lived a common childhood and adolescence, he decided at 10 years old he started learning painting.

Choose to continue this training the arts in the Rubens workshop, where they exchanged ideas and techniques.

from 1618 he began to collaborate in the studio of Rubens.

in 1620, Anton travels to London, he obtains a pension and he move to Italy.

Returning of Antwerp, he was nombrated court painter and he began his caeer of portraitist important.

Finally Anton Van Dyck died in 1640, coincidentally when he finished with a orders that Philip IV had done, but failure to reach an agreement, returns to London, where he died.

events that happened in his time

1609 Creation of the Bank of Amsterdam.
1610 Assassination of Henry IV.
1613 begins the process of the Inquisition against Galileo.
1633 France declares war on Spain.

His main works were:

(1618) Crowning with thorns
(1618) San Jeronimo
(1620) Betrothal of St Catherine
(1620) Piety
(1620) Arrest
(1620) Metal Snake
(1625) Santa Rosalia
(1627) Christ crucified
(1627) Hendrick Liberti
(1627) Musician
(1628) Federico E. Nassau
(1630) Rest on the Flight to Egypt
(1630) Martin Ryckaert
(1632) Self-Portrait with Sir Endymion Porter
(1632) Carlos I to the Order of the Garter
(1633) Self-portrait with a sunflower
(1633) Queen Henrietta Maria with Jeffrey Hudson
(1634) Don Fernando de Austria
(1634) Hendrick Bergh
(1635) Charles I Hunting
(1635) Paulus Pontius
(1636) Lady Mary Villiers and Lord Arran
(1637) Lady Elizabeth Thimbleby and Dorothy, Duchess of Andover
(1639) Mary Ruthven
(1640) Princess Mary