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Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Hardcover)
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Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Hardcover)
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A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the
art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck 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. 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. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
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