Van Dyck: The Man, the Artist and his Influence

An introduction to Sir Anthony van Dyck by Catharine MacLeod, Curator of Seventeenth-Century Portraits.

From assistant in Rubens' Antwerp studio to leading painter at the court of King Charles I in England, Catharine MacLeod outlines Van Dyck's artistic career and considers his prominent place in the history of British portraiture.

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