Anthony van dyck

1634/1635. Oil on canvas. 42 x 52 cm. Private collection.

A portrait does not merely record someone’s features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person’s presence.

(See also: Yale University Press- Van Dyck- A complete catalogue of the paintings, IV.A33). Musée du Louvre, Paris. Here you find a link to the Museum: www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en

James Stuart was a loyal supporter of his cousin Charles I and served in high posts at court, such as Gentleman of the Bedchamber and Lord Steward of the Household. He was installed as Knight of the Garter on November 6, 1633, and in 1641 was created Duke of Richmond

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Anthony van Dyck, Head of a Young Woman, c.1620

Antonis van Dyck / Sir Anthony van Dyck, Antwerpen 1599 - London 1641 Lady Frances Cranfield, Later Countess of Dorset National Trust, Knole, UK

It has been suggested that a portrait by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck hides a secret about his love life. If so, he is part of a history that stretches from Caravaggio to Kahlo

Portrait of Lady Mary Villiers (1622-1685), Lady Herbert and later Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, full-length, seated in a landscape as Saint Agnes, in a silk dress, her right arm resting on a lamb and a palm branch in her left hand