Dyck, Anthony van - The Emperor Theodosius refused admission..by St Ambrose

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: The Emperor Theodosius refused admission into the Church by S. Ambrose
• Artist (if known): Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: National Gallery, London
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): 2 1/2d red Wilding - London to Nottingham, 1965
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A406

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Sir Anthony van Dyck (Dutch pronunciation: [v?n 'd????k], many variant spellings;^[1] 22 March 1599 � 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draftsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching.

Antoon van Dyck (his Flemish name) was born to prosperous parents in Antwerp. His talent was evident very early, and he was studying painting with Hendrick van Balen by 1609, and became an independent painter around 1615, setting up a workshop with his even younger friend Jan Brueghel the Younger.^[2] By the age of fifteen he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his Self-portrait, 1613�14, shows.^[3] He was admitted to the Antwerp painters' Guild of Saint Luke as a free master by February 1618.^[4] Within a few years he was to be the chief assistant to the dominant master of Antwerp, and the whole of Northern Europe, Peter Paul Rubens, who made much use of sub-contracted artists as well as his own large workshop. His influence on the young artist was immense; Rubens referred to the nineteen-year-old van Dyck as ""the best of my pupils"".^[5] The origins and exact nature of their relationship are unclear; it has been speculated that Van Dyck was a pupil of Rubens from about 1613, as even his early work shows little trace of van Balen's style, but there is no clear evidence for this.^[6] At the same time the dominance of Rubens in the small and declining city of Antwerp probably explains why, despite his periodic returns to the city, van Dyck spent most of his career abroad.^[6] In 1620, in Rubens's contract for the major commission for the ceiling of the Jesuit church at Antwerp (now destroyed), van Dyck is specified as one of the ""discipelen"" who was to execute the paintings to Rubens' designs.^[7]

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