Anthony van Dyck: Self-portrait
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Artist |
Anthony van Dyck
(1599–1641) |
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Alternative names |
Anthony van Dyck, Anthonie van Dyck, Anton van Dijck, Antonis van Deik, Antoon van Dijk, Anthonis van Dyck, Antoine van Dyck |
Description |
Flemish painter, drawer as printmaker |
Date of birth/death |
22 Mayrnt 1599 |
9 Mee ny Nollick 1641 |
Location of birth/death |
Antwerp |
Blackfriars, London |
Work location |
Antwerp (1609–1610, 1615–1620), Lunnin (1620-Mayrnt 1621), Zaventem (1621), Genoa (Jerrey Fouyir 1621-Toshiaght Arree 1622), Yn Raue (Toshiaght Arree 1622-Jerrey Souree 1622), Firenze (1622), Bologna (1622), Yn Veneesh (1622), Yn Raue (1623), Mantua (1623), Genoa (1623), Palermo (1623–1624), Genoa (1624–1625), Antwerp (Jerrey Souree 1627), Lunnin (1627-Mayrnt 1628), Antwerp (Mayrnt 1628), The Hague (1629), Antwerp (1629–1632), Haarlem (1632), City of Brussels (1632), Lunnin (Boaldyn 1632-1634), Antwerp (1634–1635), City of Brussels (1634), Lunnin (1636–1640), Antwerp (18 Jerrey Fouyir 1640-...), Paarys (Jerrey Geuree 1641-Mee Houney 1641), Blackfriars, London (Mee Houney 1641-9 Mee ny Nollick 1641) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q150679 |
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Title |
Sir Anthony van Dyck |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
hene-chaslys |
Coontey |
English: A self-portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck painted circa 1640 |
Depicted people |
Anthony van Dyck |
Date |
circa 1640 date QS:P571,+1640-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 56 cm; width: 46 cm dimensions QS:P2048,56.0U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,46.0U174728 (oval) |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q238587 |
Accession number |
NPG 6987 |
Object history |
- Possibly in the collection of Sir Peter Lely, d. 1680;
- Possibly his sale 18th April 1682 (bought by Lord Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (1619-1708) for £34);
- Richard Graham (fl. 1695-1727) until sold in his sale, Peletier London, 6 March 1712, lot 41, bought by Sir Francis Child the Younger (1684-1740);
- by descent to his nephew Robert Child (1739-1782) of Osterley Park;
- by descent to his grand-daughter Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1785-1867) who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison (1773-1859) of Osterley Park, Middlesex and Middleton Park, Oxfordshire;
- by descent
- Sotheby's London, 9 November 2009, realized £8,329,250 including hammer price and buyer's premium
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Exhibition history |
- London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Old Masters from Jersey Collections, 1952, no. 11;
- London, National Portrait Gallery, Van Dyck in England, 1982, no. 65;
- London, Tate Gallery, Van Dyck in Britain, 2009, no. 67;
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Notes |
- The painting was purchased in a 2009 Sotheby's sale by the collector Alfred Bader and art dealer Philip Mould. These offered the painting in 2010 to the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Museum in London for £9,500,00. The museums were unable to raise the necessary funds and in 2013 Bader and Mould arranged a private sale with the art collector James Stunt, for £12,500,000. Stunt lives in Los Angeles for much of the year and was obliged to apply for an export license. The UK government placed a three month export ban on the painting to allow an attempt to raise the funds to buy the painting for the nation. Stunt, noting the public support for the campaign, withdrew his application for an export license. Finally the National Portrait gallery purchased the painting in 2014 with the aid of £1.44 million donated by more than 10,000 individuals, £1.2 million donated by two private trusts, and a £6,343,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
- The painting is held in an important seventeenth century Italianate Mannerist style English frame.
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References |
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Source/Photographer |
The History Blog info The History Blog image |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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Other versions |
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Sotheby's image, uploaded to sRGB colour space from uncalibrated ex GIMP 2.6.7 image processing software
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National Portrait Gallery image
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Framed
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