Anthony van Dyck valuation
Rubens's most brilliant assistant, and the portrait painter who fixed the image of Charles I's court.
Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was born in Antwerp, was painting independently in his teens, and became the most gifted assistant in Rubens's studio.
What a work by Anthony van Dyck is worth
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Bio
Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was born in Antwerp, was painting independently in his teens, and became the most gifted assistant in Rubens's studio. From 1621 to 1627 he was in Italy, chiefly in Genoa, where his full-length portraits of the nobility set a new standard of elegance. In 1632 he settled in London as principal painter to Charles I, who knighted him, and painted the king, Queen Henrietta Maria and their court in the portraits that define how the age looks, among them the Equestrian Portrait of Charles I in the National Gallery and Charles I at the Hunt in the Louvre. His influence on British portraiture ran through Lely and Kneller to Gainsborough and Reynolds. He also etched portraits of artists and scholars for the series known as the Iconography.
Demand for his royal portraits was so great that his studio produced replicas, and copies were made for the rest of the century and beyond, so many portraits of the Caroline court on the market are workshop pieces, versions or later copies. The share of his own hand, the condition and the identity of the sitter decide the value, and the catalogue raisonné published in 2004 by Susan Barnes, Nora De Poorter, Oliver Millar and Horst Vey is the reference. The Iconography was reprinted many times after his death, its plates reworked and completed by other engravers, and early states, above all of the few plates Van Dyck etched himself, are worth far more than later impressions.
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