Sir Anthony Van Dyck

Standard Name: Van Dyck, Sir Anthony

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Margaret Cavendish	During their exile, the marquess entertained influential materialist thinkers Thomas Hobbes , Pierre Gassendi , and René Descartes ; Margaret Cavendish says she made no contribution to their learned discussions, but it seems likely that...
Leisure and Society	Ephelia	From an early age, the personal beauty of Lady Mary Villiers and her prominence at court ensured that she was painted many times: by Van Dyck (especially), John Michael Wright , and possibly Lely ...
Textual Features	Carola Oman	Oman relates her subject's public engagements as an infant (attending her mother's coronation, sprinkling holy water on her father's corpse); her departure from her native country, with absolutely no knowledge of the English language, to...
Textual Production	Mary Delany	MD created work in many visual genres: drawing, painting, silhouettes, cut-paper work, shellwork, and patterns for embroidery as well as the actual embroidery itself. Her collateral descendant and biographer Ruth Hayden remembered as a child...
Wealth and Poverty	Lady Jane Cavendish	In November 1645 she hid and thus preserved an inventory of the family silver at Welbeck, and she saved some of the tapestries and Van Dyck paintings from both houses in the general despoiling. Out...

Timeline

By 15 July 1632

The painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck had spent long enough during his second visit to England to be requesting payment for a completed portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria (known to her husband and...

18 February 1742

Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the popularity of Mary Queen of Scots costumes, and those dressed like Van Dyck portraits in vaguely seventeenth-century style.

Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.

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