Van Dyck and the making of English portraiture
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  alternate name: Portrait painting, English
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  alternate name: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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abstract: As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to English artists. By making his portrait sittings into a form of courtly spectacle, Van Dyck inspired poets and playwrights at the same time that he offended guardians of traditional hierarchies. A self-consciously Van Dyckian lineage of artists, many of them women, extends from his lifetime to the end of the eighteenth century and beyond.0 Recovering the often surprising responses of both writers and painters to Van Dyck's portraits, this book provides an alternative perspective on English art's historical self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van Dyck's art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth, and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English school of portraiture."-- page 2 of flap jacket.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310176855
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310176855
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Studio scenes -- The scene of the sitting -- Impudent painters -- Artists and gentlewomen -- Genealogies of portraiture -- Old master poses.
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