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Discover the captivating Charles I in Three Positions, a masterpiece by renowned Flemish artist Sir Anthony van Dyck. This striking oil painting, created between 1635 and 1636, show...

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In Van Dyck’s portrait, the pregnant queen of England cradles her arms over her abdomen while standing next to a crown that advertises her rank. Henrietta Maria commissioned this painting as a gift for Cardinal Francesco Barberini, who viewed the devout French-born queen as a critical collaborator i...

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Van Dyck portrayed the Jesuit Jean-Charles della Faille with, as very prominent attributes, the instruments on the table to his left. The learned divine, from a wealthy Antwerp merchant family, entered the Company of Jesus in 1613. At the highly-reputed Antwerp school he advanced his mathematical sk...

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While fleeing from the Philistines, Samson fell in love with Delilah. This did not go unnoticed by his pursuers, and they promised Delilah a large amount of silver if she could find out where in his great strength lay. Upon her questioning, he lied to her three times and his capture failed, but Deli...

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In 1641 the fourth Duke of Lennox was created first Duke of Richmond by his cousin, Charles I, King of England. Four years earlier he had married Mary Villiers, daughter of the king’s favorite, the Duke of Buckingham. Van Dyck probably painted this majestic portrait shortly after Stuart’s investitur...

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A Masterpiece of Post-Impressionism

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On 4 February 1771 the two royal brothers Gustav and Fredrik arrived in Paris. By that time Roslin had already had time to paint a portrait of their middle brother, Karl, who had left the French capital a few months earlier. New sittings now followed – in the mornings the Crown Prince and his younge...

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This painting is a copy after the portrait by Anthony van Dyck now in the Baltimore Museum of Art,6 which was first recorded in an inventory of the possessions of Amalia van Solms-Braunfels (1602-1675), the sitter’s widow, of 1673, and was probably painted in Antwerp following Van Dyck’s visit to Th...

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The sitter in this portrait wears combat dress: a buff surcoat over a slashed mulberry-coloured tunic trimmed with gold lace, pointed with lace collar and cuffs. A baldric supports a sword at his side, round his neck and shoulders is a gorget; his breeches are also mulberry-coloured and trimmed with...

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Nicolas Lanier (1588–1666) had been court musical director to Charles I since 1625 and was one of the agents the English king sent to Mantua in order to monitor the transport to London of the ducal collection he had acquired a short time earlier. The precious cargo was first brought to Antwerp, wher...

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Eugène Delacroix, a French Romantic artist, is renowned for his iconic painting Liberty Leading the People, which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830. This powerful artwork is ava...

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Gulian Verplanck (1751–1799) graduated from Kings’s College (now Columbia University) in 1768 and then spent several years in the Netherlands working at the banking firm of his maternal uncle, Daniel Crommelin. In 1788, following his return to New York, Gulian was elected to the state assembly, wher...

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Scottish miniaturist Charles Shirreff was one of the more talented and distinct of the many miniaturists active at the end of the 18th century. Shirreff, who became deaf at the age of three or four, studied at Thomas Braidwood’s Academy for the Deaf and Dumb, the first dedicated school for the deaf ...

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The painting, commissoned by Emperor Charles V, was executed in Augsburg in 1548. Isabella of Portugal (1503-1539) married Emperor Charles V in 1526. She died very young, when she was only 36, and long before Charles V commissioned Titian to paint her portrait. Her pale face emphasizes her gentlenes...

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