Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture

Adam Eaker

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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
13 January 2023

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Art & design styles: Baroque; Portraits in art; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

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.

By: Adam Eaker
Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9781913107345
ISBN 10: 1913107345
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 13 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adam Eaker is an associate curator in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Reviews for Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture

""A wonderfully insightful and thorough examination of Van Dyck's world. . . . Throughout Eaker provides a historiography of responses to Van Dyke by writers and artists, vividly recounting and recovering Van Dyck's reputation and reception.""--A. Golahny, Choice