Anthony van Dyck: 9 works

'It came to the Uffizi with the attribution to Van Dyck in 1753.'

'The glass vase of flowers in De Vos's portrait represents one of the most virtuosic passages in all of Van Dyck's work, transmuting bold and unerring strokes of blue and buttery yellow paint into reflections on the surface of the vase.'

'The subject is based on an engraving after Titian and a Titianesque drawing also attributed to Van Dyck, but with equal lack of certainty, at Chatsworth. However, recent conservation has made the attribution to Van Dyck less, rather than more, likely.'

'Anthony van Dyck painted the subject of Saint Sebastian many times, choosing various moments in the saint's story but never focusing on the one thing that most other artists emphasized: the saint's flesh punctured with arrows. Van Dyck's goal was to explore the subject's emotional possibilities, rather than the physical wounds.'

'The Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter (1637) in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland (Barnes IV.192) has allowed the identification of the sitter in the Bowes painting, which might be a copy of a lost original by Van Dyck.'

'DPG420 is a bust-length grisaille copy of a portrait by Van Dyck known in several versions.'

'The restless experimentation and disregard for detail and proportion evident in this sheet reflect van Dyck's preoccupation with the dramatic action of the scene.'