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Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture

Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture

Eaker, Adam

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral ArtBritish History

ISBN10: 1913107345
ISBN13: 9781913107345
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Published: Oct 25 2022
Pages: 250
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.60 Depth: 10.90
Language: English
A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck

As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to English artists. By making his portrait sittings into a form of courtly spectacle, Van Dyck inspired poets and playwrights at the same time that he offended guardians of traditional hierarchies. A self-consciously Van Dyckian lineage of artists, many of them women, extends from his lifetime to the end of the eighteenth century and beyond.

Recovering the often surprising responses of both writers and painters to Van Dyck's portraits, this book provides an alternative perspective on English art's historical self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van Dyck's art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth, and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English school of portraiture.

Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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