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A standard item of masquerade dress was a "Vandyke", improvised on the costumes worn in the portraits of Van Dyck: Gainsborough's Blue Boy is the most familiar example, and a reminder of the later 18th-century popularity in England for portraits in fancy dress.
[3] [4] Philip Mould owned a portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria in a blue dress. This had been sold at Christie's on 24 January 2012. [5] At that time it was described as being "after van Dyck" ("a fake van Dyck" for the purposes of the shows premise). It was estimated at £4,000 - £6,000 but realised £8,750 (including buyer's premium).
In 1635 Van Dyck had painted a portrait of the same three children, which was intended to be sent to the Queen's sister Christina, in exchange for portraits of the Duchess's children. However, the King was angry with Van Dyck for showing Prince Charles wearing skirts, worn only by younger children, so the artist painted a second group portrait ...
A confusing number of different pigments used in painting have been called "Vandyke brown" (mostly in English-language sources). Some predate van Dyck, and it is not clear that he used any of them. [39] Van Dyke brown is an early photographic printing process using such a colour. When van Dyck was knighted in 1632, he anglicized his name to ...
Gordenker, Emilie E.S.: Van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture, Brepols, 2001, ISBN 978-2-503-50880-1; Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS
Van Dyck's portraits of Charles on horseback echo the imperial tone of Titian's equestrian portrait of Emperor Charles V from 1548, itself inspired by equestrian portraits of Roman emperors. [3] In c.1620, Van Dyck painted a similar portrait of Charles V. The composition may also borrow from Dürer’s 1513 engraving Knight, Death and the Devil.
Equestrian Portrait of Francisco de Moncada is a 1634 oil on canvas painting by Antony van Dyck, one of his most famous portraits, [1] now INV 1240 in Room 850 (d) of the Louvre Museum, which acquired it from the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1798. [2] [3] It shows Francisco de Moncada, who for one year was governor of the Spanish Netherlands. [4]
The Tate Gallery in London acquired the painting in the year 2002, and acquired van Dyck's Portrait of Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew, also dated 1638, in the year 2003. This acquisition brought together the pair of portraits for the first time in over 150 years.