By Sartini
Located in Casteren, NL
This beautiful bust of the famous Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck was cast in the late 19th century. The bust depicts the painter in his glory days wearing a rich period outfit. The bust shows multiple layers of cracked white paint with rich patina and has aged beautifully.
Sir Anthony van Dyck, 22 march 1599 – 9 December 1641 was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. 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 traveling 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 archduchess Isabella, Habsburg Governor of Flanders. In 1632 he returned to London to be the main court painter, at the request of Charles I of England...
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Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sartini