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...The walls of the sala blu feature van Dyck and Antonio Maria Vassallo; by the entrance to the library is a Portrait of a Lady by Rogier van der Weyden....
...of John Julius Angerstein”, Reynolds turns up the historic allusions — the boy’s pose is based on the “Seated Hermes” bronze at Herculaneum, the sumptuous palette and lighting derive from Rubens and Van Dyck...
...Tudors, Stuarts and Georgians got the best artists: Holbein, Van Dyck, Thomas Lawrence. Europe had the same allegiance of genius to power: Titian and Velázquez painted the Habsburgs, Goya the Bourbons....
...The ambitious absolutists Henry VIII and Charles I had enticed Holbein and Van Dyck from Europe....
...Some seven museum-worthy rarities of 1500-1560, mostly woven in the Southern Netherlands, are on display, including a wainscot tapestry with a border of pomegranates that may have belonged to Elizabeth I...
...Hilliard even prospered under Elizabeth’s successor, James I....
...The Everyman Classic Stories of Art and Artists uses a self-portrait by Elizabeth Chaplin on the cover to represent both female and male artists and writers....
...Probably the most curious object to appear in the show is Dr Dee’s mirror, owned by Queen Elizabeth I’s necromancer, which was tracked down and purchased by Walpole....
...More invested in divinely anointed authority than human accessibility, the Stuarts hired image-makers such as Van Dyck who would reliably turn out masterpieces of courtly grandeur, editing where necessary...
...” • Cheryl Miller Van Dyck An American by birth but a Belgian resident for 20 years, Cheryl Miller Van Dyck founded the Brussels-based Digital Leadership Institute to help more women reach top roles in...
...In a delicate oil study of the Princesses Elizabeth and Anne, on loan from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, we can see the confident umber outline in which Van Dyck first sketched the princesses’...
...(Now Royal Museums Greenwich are fundraising to save the finest of the three “Armada Portraits” of Elizabeth I.)...
...The Duke of Devonshire, another board director, owns a haul of old masters including paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Gainsborough, many of which are housed at his stately home Chatsworth House....
...Guests feasting in the Bacchus-themed dining-room enjoyed the company of Henry Danvers, Earl of Derby, painted by Van Dyck and later saved by the Hermitage curators....
...Why, the un-homegrown likes of Pietro Torrigiano (for the tomb of Henry VII); Hans Holbein, Marcus Gheeraerts, Anthony van Dyck, Johan Zoffany, Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Pietro Annigoni....
...Attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck and studio, it was bought for the house at a Phillips auction in 1984 for £6,500....
...The display opens with the virtuoso-textured work that launched Lawrence’s career, “Elizabeth Farren” (1790)....
...Particular highlights are Van Dyck’s “Samson and Delilah”, Gainsborough’s “Elizabeth and Mary Linley – The Linley Sisters” and Rembrandt’s “Girl at a Window”....
...But Van Dyck’s children are on an altogether different level of skill: charmingly informal and rapidly caught with considerable painterly delight....
...Among an extensive group of sculptures are four of Elizabeth Frink’s “Tribute” heads, conceived in 1975 and each estimated at around £150,000, among nine other Frink sculptures....
...Titled ladies were often formidable, and Van Dyck’s portrait of Elizabeth, Countess of Burlington, is the quintessence of proud, genteel poise....
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