83-553: Henley Town Hall is a municipal structure in the Market Place in Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire , England. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Henley Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building . The first municipal building in the town was a medieval guildhall on the south side of Hart Street which was completed in the late 13th century. This was replaced by a second structure in 1492: this building, which
166-512: A Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and returned it to El Escorial , two centuries after its removal and, subsequently, The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando has revealed as its own a long-stored painting, added to another, The Virgin with the Child with the repentant sinners , in addition the institution has an original sketch. In addition, in December 2017, a Virgin with Child , which
249-437: A Mayor. The Local Government Act 1972 resulted in the re-organisation of local government in that year. Henley became part of Wallingford District Council, subsequently renamed South Oxfordshire District Council. The borough council was replaced by a town council but the role of mayor was retained. Henley Bridge is a five arched bridge across the river built in 1786. It is a Grade I listed historic structure. During 2011
332-566: A Tamys" in 1485. By the beginning of the 16th century, the town extended along the west bank of the Thames from Friday Street in the south to the Manor , now Phyllis Court , in the north and took in Hart Street and New Street. To the west, it included Bell Street and the Market Place. Henry VIII granted the use of the titles "mayor" and " burgess ", and the town was incorporated in 1568 in
415-456: A drawing on paper, which was then enlarged onto canvas by an assistant; he then painted the head himself. The costume in which the client wished to be painted was left at the studio and often with the unfinished canvas sent out to artists specialised in rendering such clothing. In his last years these studio collaborations accounted for some decline in the quality of work. In addition many copies untouched by him, or virtually so, were produced by
498-508: A few others can also be received. Regatta Radio was broadcast during Henley Royal Regatta for a number of years up to 2014. As Henley is on an overlap of TV regions, it is possible to receive signals from the Crystal Palace ( BBC London / ITV London ) and Hannington ( BBC South / ITV Meridian ) transmitters. However, the local relay transmitter for Henley only broadcasts programmes from ITV London and BBC London , making Henley
581-605: A figure, after a portrait by Johann Zoffany , of " the King in a Vandyck dress". A confusing number of different pigments used in painting have been called "Vandyke brown" (mostly in English-language sources). Some predate van Dyck, and it is not clear that he used any of them. Van Dyke brown is an early photographic printing process using such a colour. When van Dyck was knighted in 1632, he anglicized his name to Vandyke. The heraldic blazon of his coat of arms
664-491: A highly accomplished artist, as shown by his Self-portrait dated 1613–14. He was admitted to the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a free master on Saint Luke's day, 18 October 1617. Within a few years he became the chief assistant to Peter Paul Rubens , the leading master painter of Antwerp and the whole of Northern Europe. Rubens operated a large workshop and often relied on sub-contracted artists. His influence on
747-576: A house called the Kasteel van Rijssel (Castle of Lille ) in the Korte Nieuwstraat. His mother died when he was only 8 years old. At the time the family was living in a more luxurious house in the Korte Nieuwstraat called the Stadt van Ghent (City of Ghent). His artistic talent was evident very early. When he was 10 years old, he started his formal training as a painter with Hendrick van Balen
830-459: A master. The reason was that in that period his father was experiencing financial difficulties and could use any assistance he could get. It was during the period van Dyck may have started painting the series of panels of Christ and the Apostles in bust-length, although it is also possible that this only happened after his first return from Italy in 1620–21. By the age of fifteen he was already
913-579: A naturally straight stretch of the river just north of the town. It was extended artificially. The event became "Royal" in 1851, when Prince Albert became patron of the regatta. Other regattas and rowing races are held on the same reach, including Henley Women's Regatta , Henley Town and Visitors Regatta, Henley Veteran Regatta, Upper Thames Small Boats Head, Henley Fours and Eights Head, and Henley Sculls. These "Heads" often attract strong crews that have won medals at National Championships. Local rowing clubs include: The regatta depicted throughout Dead in
SECTION 10
#1732776855563996-802: A new club in Henley was started in September 2016 called Henley Lions FC. Henley has one local newspaper, the Henley Standard which is also available online. In addition to the Henley Standard website, there is another source of news online: the Henley Herald Local radio stations are BBC Radio Berkshire on 94.6 FM, Heart South on 103.4 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Berkshire and North Hampshire on 107.0 FM and London 's radio stations such as Capital and Magic along with
1079-622: A new stylistic language that would enrich the compositional lessons learned from Rubens. He returned to Flanders after about four months, and then left in late 1621 for Italy, where he remained for six years. There he studied the Italian masters while starting a successful career as a portraitist. He was already presenting himself as a figure of consequence, annoying the rather bohemian Northern artist's colony in Rome , says Giovan Pietro Bellori , by appearing with "the pomp of Zeuxis ... his behaviour
1162-512: A port for ships to the Continent, suggesting that van Dyck did them casually whilst waiting for wind or tide to improve. Probably during his period in Antwerp after his return from Italy, van Dyck began his Iconographie , which became a very large series of prints with half-length portraits of eminent contemporaries. He produced drawings, and for eighteen of the portraits he himself etched
1245-536: A portrait artist. Van Dyck remained in touch with the English court and helped King Charles's agents in their search for pictures. He sent some of his own works, including a self-portrait (1623) with Endymion Porter , one of Charles's agents, his Rinaldo and Armida (1629), and a religious picture for Queen Henrietta Maria . He had also painted Charles's sister, Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia , at The Hague in 1632. In April of that year, van Dyck returned to London and
1328-404: A repertory of images that were plundered by portrait painters throughout Europe over the next couple of centuries". Van Dyck's brilliant etching style, which depended on open lines and dots, was in marked contrast to that of the other great portraitist in prints of the period, Rembrandt , and had little influence until the 19th century, when it had a great influence on artists such as Whistler in
1411-509: A rich presence of this artist in addition to The Prado's ensemble. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum preserves the Portrait of Jacques Le Roy , property of The Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection but also on display at the Museum there's a Crucified Christ , and The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum houses a great Lamentation before the dead Christ . In 2008, Patrimonio Nacional of Spain recovered
1494-409: A short flight of steps leading up to a doorway with an arched stone surround. There was a Venetian window on the first floor flanked by two pairs of Ionic order pilasters supporting an architrave and a large pediment with a carved coat of arms in the tympanum . At roof level there was a cupola with a gold ball and a weather vane . Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber on
1577-477: A well-to-do silk merchant. His mother was Maria Cupers (or Cuypers), daughter of Dirk Cupers (or Cuypers) and Catharina Conincx and the second wife of Anthony's father. He was baptised on 23 March 1599 (as Anthonio). His parental grandfather, also called Anthoni, had commenced his career as a painter and had been registered in 1556 as a master painter at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Jan Ghendrick, alias van Cleve. The elder brother of his grandfather
1660-636: Is Quarters 1 & 4. Azure six roundels 3, 2 and 1 Or and for augmentation on a chief Gules a lion passant gardant Or. 2 & 3. Sable a saltire Or. Over all an inescutcheon Or thereon a bend sinister Azure . The coat of arms is crested with a greyhound's head. The British Royal Collection , which still contains many of his paintings, has a total of twenty-six paintings. The National Gallery, London (fourteen works), The Museo del Prado (Spain) (twenty-five Works, such as: Self-portrait with Endymion Porter , The Metal Serpent , Christ Crowned with Thorns , The taking of Christ , Portrait of Mary Ruthven ,
1743-607: Is believed, was granted by a charter of King John . A market was certainly in existence by 1269; however, the jurors of the assize of 1284 said that they did not know by what warrant the Earl of Cornwall held a market and fair in the town of Henley. The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of Henry VI . During the Black Death pandemic that swept through England in the 14th century, Henley lost 60% of its population. A variation on its name can be seen as "Henley up
SECTION 20
#17327768555631826-486: Is kept in The Cerralbo Museum and was previously considered the work of Mateo Cerezo , was revealed as the painter's original after an exhaustive study and restoration project. Finally, The Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia owns an Equestrian Portrait of Don Francisco de Moncada (currently undergoing restoration, April 2020). Tate Britain held the exhibition Van Dyck & Britain in 2009. In 2016
1909-594: Is named after him. During his lifetime, Charles I granted him a knighthood , and he was buried in St Paul's Cathedral , an indication of his standing at the time of his death. Anthony van Dyck was born in Antwerp on 22 March 1599 as the seventh of 12 children of his parents. He was baptized the next day in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (now the Antwerp Cathedral ) His father was Frans van Dyck,
1992-425: Is not possible to document a connection to his studio for any English painter of any significance. Dutchman Adriaen Hanneman (1604–1671) returned to his native city, The Hague in 1638 to become the leading portraitist there. Flemish painter Pieter Thijs studied in van Dyck's workshop as one of van Dyck's last pupils. He became a very successful portrait and history painter in his native Antwerp. Much later,
2075-402: Is now mostly updated ( country house attributions may be more dubious in some cases). The relatively few names of his assistants that are known are Dutch or Flemish. He probably preferred to use trained Flemish artists, as no equivalent English training existed in this period. Van Dyck's enormous influence on English art does not come from a tradition handed down through his pupils. In fact it
2158-584: Is of the Company." A fairly small number of landscape pen and wash drawings or watercolours made in England played an important part in introducing the Flemish watercolour landscape tradition to England. Some are studies, which reappear in the background of paintings, but many are signed and dated and were probably regarded as finished works to be given as presents. Several of the most detailed are of Rye ,
2241-671: The Frick Collection in New York had an exhibition "Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture", the first major survey of the artist's work in the United States in over two decades. The estate of the Earl Spencer at Althorp houses a small collection of van Dycks including War and Peace (Portrait of Sir George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol , English Royalist politician with William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford ), which
2324-520: The Louvre without success. A list of history paintings produced by van Dyck in England survives. It was compiled by van Dyck's biographer Bellori, based on information from Sir Kenelm Digby . None of these works appear to remain, except the Eros and Psyche done for the King (below). But many other works, rather more religious than mythological, do survive, and though they are very fine, they do not reach
2407-601: The M40 motorway (junction 4) are both about (7 miles or 11 km) away. Bus route 850, operated by Carousel Buses on an 20 minute frequency, runs through Henley between Reading and High Wycombe . Organic baby food manufacturer Ella's Kitchen is headquartered in Henley-on-Thames. Henley is a world-renowned centre for rowing . Each summer the Henley Royal Regatta is held on Henley Reach,
2490-484: The tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire . The population at the 2021 Census was 12,186. There is archaeological evidence of people residing in Henley since the second century as part of the Romano-British period. The first record of Henley as a substantial settlement is from 1179, when it is recorded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted
2573-530: The 17th and 18th centuries was due to manufactures of glass and malt, and trade in corn and wool. Henley-on-Thames supplied London with timber and grain. A workhouse to accommodate 150 people was built at West Hill in Henley in 1790, and was later enlarged to accommodate 250 as the Henley Poor Law Union workhouse. Prior to 1974 Henley was a municipal borough with a Borough Council comprising twelve Councillors and four Aldermen , headed by
Henley Town Hall - Misplaced Pages Continue
2656-795: The City of Palermo in Puerto Rico, and Coronation of Saint Rosalia in Vienna. Van Dyck's series of St Rosalia paintings have been studied by Gauvin Alexander Bailey and Xavier F. Salomon , both of whom curated or co-curated exhibitions devoted to the theme of Italian art and the plague. In 2020, the New York Times published an article about the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's painting of Saint Rosalia by Van Dyck in
2739-511: The Elder . Van Balen was a successful painter of small cabinet paintings who had multiple pupils. It is not known how long he studied with van Balen, and estimates vary from two to four years. While it was common for apprentices to stay on in their master's workshop until they were formally registered as a master in the local guild, van Dyck is believed to have left his master's workshop in 1615 or 1616 to set up his independent workshop before he became
2822-531: The King and Queen (later a special causeway was built to ease their access), who hardly sat for another painter while van Dyck lived. He was an immediate success in England, where he painted large numbers of portraits of the King and Queen, as well as their children. Many portraits were done in several versions, to be sent as diplomatic gifts or given to supporters of the increasingly embattled king. Altogether van Dyck has been estimated to have painted forty portraits of King Charles himself, as well as about thirty of
2905-480: The Queen, nine of the Earl of Strafford , and multiple ones of other courtiers. He painted many of the court, and also himself and his mistress, Margaret Lemon. In England he developed a version of his style which combined a relaxed elegance and ease with an understated authority in his subjects which was to dominate English portrait-painting to the end of the 18th century. His portraits of Charles on horseback updated
2988-627: The Water , an episode of the British detective television series Midsomer Murders , was filmed at Henley. The River and Rowing Museum , located in Mill Meadows , is the town's one museum. It was established in 1998, and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II . The museum, designed by the architect David Chipperfield , features information on the River Thames , the sport of rowing , and
3071-426: The aristocracy, most notably Charles I, and his family and associates. He was the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for over 150 years. He also painted mythological , allegorical and biblical subjects, including altarpieces, displayed outstanding facility as a draughtsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching . His influence extends into the modern period. The Van Dyke beard
3154-483: The bridge underwent a £200,000 repair programme after being hit by the boat Crazy Love in August 2010. About 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) upstream of the bridge is Marsh Lock . Henley Town Hall , which maintains a prominent position in the Market Place, was designed by Henry Hare and completed in 1900. Chantry House is the second Grade I listed building in the town. It is unusual in having more storeys on one side than on
3237-432: The building, which featured a full-height portico , was built in red brick on a site to the west of the second town hall. It was also arcaded on the ground floor with an assembly room on the first floor and was completed in December 1796. There was a village lock-up for petty criminals in the basement. The town hall became the regular venue for the draw to determine qualifying teams for the annual Henley Royal Regatta when
3320-703: The classic idea of " Cavalier " style and dress, in fact a majority of his most important patrons in the nobility, such as Lord Wharton and the Earls of Bedford , Northumberland and Pembroke , took the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War that broke out soon after his death. The King in Council by letters patent granted van Dyck denizenship in 1638. On 27 February 1640 he married Mary Ruthven, with whom he had one daughter. Mary
3403-737: The context of the COVID-19 virus. For the Genoese aristocracy, then in a final flush of prosperity, he developed a full-length portrait style, drawing on Veronese and Titian as well as Rubens' style from his own period in Genoa, where extremely tall but graceful figures look down on the viewer with great hauteur. In 1627, he went back to Antwerp where he remained for five years, painting more affable portraits which still made his Flemish patrons look as stylish as possible. A life-size group portrait of twenty-four City Councillors of Brussels he painted for
Henley Town Hall - Misplaced Pages Continue
3486-590: The council-chamber was destroyed in 1695. He was evidently very charming to his patrons, and, like Rubens, well able to mix in aristocratic and court circles, which added to his ability to obtain commissions. By 1630, he was described as the court painter of the Habsburg Governor of Flanders, the Archduchess Isabella. In this period he also produced many religious works, including large altarpieces , and began his printmaking. King Charles I
3569-496: The courts of Europe, but avoided exclusive attachment to any of them. In 1620, at the instigation of George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham , van Dyck went to England for the first time where he worked for King James I of England , receiving £100. It was in London in the collection of the Earl of Arundel that he first saw the work of Titian , whose use of colour and subtle modeling of form would prove transformational, offering
3652-494: The event first took place in summer 1839. Its borough council, which had met in the assembly room, was reformed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883 . In the late 19th century, after the previous town hall was deemed too small, civic leaders decided to demolish it and build a fourth structure on the same site as the third one, as a lasting memorial to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee . The new building
3735-707: The former Archbishop of Canterbury , William Laud , and a portrait by an unknown artist of the former Lord Chancellor , Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield . Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames ( / ˌ h ɛ n l i -/ HEN -lee ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames , in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire , England, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Reading , 7 miles (11 km) west of Maidenhead , 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Oxford and 37 miles (60 km) west of London (by road), near
3818-638: The gates were given to Holy Trinity Church. During the First World War , the town hall was used as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment auxiliary hospital. Tablets commemorating the lives of service personnel who had died in the First World War were erected on either side of the main doorway in the early 1920s. Additional names were added at the bottom of the tablets after the Second World War . The town hall continued to serve as
3901-405: The grandeur of Titian's Equestrian Portrait of Charles V , but even more effective and original is his portrait of Charles dismounted in the Louvre : "Charles is given a totally natural look of instinctive sovereignty, in a deliberately informal setting where he strolls so negligently that he seems at first glance nature's gentleman rather than England's King". Although his portraits have created
3984-546: The ground floor and the main hall on the first floor. The ground floor contained an additional pair of large formal rooms, one of which served as the Mayor's Parlour, the other as a committee room. The basement storey was largely taken up by a drill hall , and also contained office rooms for the Town Clerk, Borough Surveyor and other council officials. The original iron gates to the building were replaced by wooden doors in 1909;
4067-609: The hands of many of van Dyck's successors, like Lely or Kneller . The conventional view has always been more favourable: "When Van Dyck came hither he brought Face-Painting to us; ever since which time ... England has excel'd all the World in that great Branch of the Art" ( Jonathan Richardson : An Essay on the Theory of Painting , 1715, 41). Thomas Gainsborough is reported to have said on his deathbed "We are all going to heaven, and Van Dyck
4150-418: The headquarters of Henley-on-Thames Borough Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Wallingford District Council was formed in 1974. The building place subsequently became the meeting place of Henley-on-Thames Town Council. Works of art in the town hall include a portrait by Godfrey Kneller of King George I , a portrait after Anthony van Dyck of
4233-600: The heads and main outlines of the figure, for an engraver to work up: "Portrait etching had scarcely had an existence before his time, and in his work it suddenly appears at the highest point ever reached in the art". He left most of the printmaking to specialists, who engraved after his drawings. His etched plates appear not to have been published until after his death, and early states are very rare. Most of his plates were printed after only his work had been done. Some exist in further states after engraving had been added, sometimes obscuring his etching. He continued to add to
SECTION 50
#17327768555634316-482: The heights of Velázquez's history paintings. Earlier ones remain very much within the style of Rubens, although some of his Sicilian works are individualistic. Van Dyck's portraits flattered more than Velázquez's. When Sophia of Hanover first met Queen Henrietta Maria (who was in exile in Holland) in 1641, she wrote: "Van Dyck's handsome portraits had given me so fine an idea of the beauty of all English ladies, that I
4399-469: The large ceiling paintings (sending them from Antwerp). A sketch for one wall remains, but by 1638 Charles was too short of money to proceed. This was a problem Velázquez did not have, but equally van Dyck's daily life was not encumbered by trivial court duties as faced by Velázquez. In his visits to Paris in his last years, van Dyck attempted to obtain the commission to paint the Grande Gallerie of
4482-467: The last major phase of portrait etching. Hyatt Mayor wrote: Etchers have studied Van Dyck ever since, for they can hope to approximate his brilliant directness, whereas nobody can hope to approach the complexity of Rembrandt's portraits. Van Dyck's success led him to maintain a large workshop in London, which became "virtually a production line for portraits". According to a visitor he usually only made
4565-512: The manor of Benson and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Harcourt in 1199. A church at Henley is first mentioned in 1204. In 1205 the town received a tax for street paving, and in 1234 the bridge is first mentioned. In 1278 Henley is described as a hamlet of Benson with a chapel . The street plan was probably established by the end of the 13th century. As a demesne of the crown it was granted in 1337 to John de Molyns, whose family held it for about 250 years. The existing Thursday market, it
4648-525: The name of the warden, portreeves , burgesses and commonalty. The original charter was issued by Elizabeth I but replaced by one from George I in 1722. Henley suffered at the hands of both parties in the Civil War . Later, William III rested here on his march to London in 1688, at the nearby recently rebuilt Fawley Court , and received a deputation from the Lords . The town's period of prosperity in
4731-602: The northwest of the town. Two notable buildings just outside Henley, in Buckinghamshire , are: The town's railway station is the terminus of the Henley Branch Line from Twyford . In the past there have been direct services to London Paddington . There are express mainline rail services from Reading (6 miles or 9.7 km) to Paddington. Trains from High Wycombe (12 miles or 19 km) go to London Marylebone . The M4 motorway (junction 8/9) and
4814-681: The only part of Oxfordshire included within the London television region. Henley-on-Thames was represented in the 2010 American drama film The Social Network as the site of a rowing competition between the US and the Netherlands. Henley is twinned with: And has a 'friendship link' with: In addition, several localities around the world are named after Henley, including: Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck ( / v æ n ˈ d aɪ k / ; Dutch : Antoon van Dyck [ˈɑntoːɱ vɑn ˈdɛik] ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641)
4897-464: The other. The Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin is nearby and has a 16th-century tower. The Old Bell is a pub in the centre of Henley on Bell Street. The building has been dated from 1325: the oldest-dated building in the town. To celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee , 60 oak trees were planted in the shape of a Victoria Cross near Fairmile, the long straight road to
4980-839: The painter's Wife), The Louvre in Paris (eighteen works), the Alte Pinakothek in Munich , the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. , the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , and the Frick Collection have examples of his portrait style. Wilton House still holds the works he did for one of his main patrons, the Earl of Pembroke, including his largest work, a huge family group portrait with ten main figures. Spanish museums own
5063-639: The relatively small and declining city of Antwerp probably explains why, despite his periodic returns to the city, van Dyck spent most of his career abroad. In 1620, in Rubens's contract for the major commission for the ceiling of the Carolus Borromeuskerk , the Jesuit church at Antwerp (lost to fire in 1718), van Dyck is specified as one of the "discipelen" who was to execute the paintings to Rubens' designs. Unlike van Dyck, Rubens worked for most of
SECTION 60
#17327768555635146-416: The series added to, so that it reached over two hundred portraits by the late 18th century. In 1851, the plates were bought by the Calcographie du Louvre . The Iconographie was highly influential as a commercial model for reproductive printmaking; now forgotten series of portrait prints were enormously popular until the advent of photography : "the importance of this series was enormous, and it provided
5229-472: The series until at least his departure for England, and presumably added Inigo Jones whilst in London. The series was a great success, but was his only venture into printmaking; portraiture probably paid better. At his death there were eighty plates by others, of which fifty-two were of artists, as well as his own eighteen. The plates were bought by a publisher; with the plates reworked periodically as they wore out they continued to be printed for centuries, and
5312-516: The studio of the leading northern painter of the day, Peter Paul Rubens , who became a major influence on his work. Van Dyck worked in London for some months in 1621, then returned to Flanders for a brief time, before travelling to Italy, where he stayed until 1627, mostly in Genoa . In the late 1620s he completed his greatly admired Iconography series of portrait etchings of mainly other artists and other famous contemporaries. He spent five years in Flanders after his return from Italy, and from 1630
5395-451: The styles worn by his models provided the names of the Van Dyke beard for the sharply pointed and trimmed goatees popular for men in his day, and the van Dyke collar , "a wide collar across the shoulders edged copiously with lace". During the reign of George III , a generic "Cavalier" fancy-dress costume called a Van Dyke was popular. Gainsborough's The Blue Boy is wearing such a Van Dyke outfit. In 1774 Derby porcelain advertised
5478-401: The town of Henley itself. Henley has the oldest football team Henley Town F.C. recognised by the Oxfordshire Football Association , they play at The Triangle ground. Henley also has a rugby union club Henley Hawks which play at the Dry Leas ground, a hockey club Henley Hockey Club which play at Jubilee Park, and Henley Cricket Club which has played at Brakspear Ground since 1886.
5561-422: The workshop, as well as by professional copyists and later painters. The number of paintings ascribed to him had by the 19th century become huge, as with Rembrandt, Titian and others. However, most of his assistants and copyists could not approach the refinement of his manner, so compared to many masters consensus among art historians on attributions to him is usually relatively easy to reach, and museum labelling
5644-402: The young artist was immense. Rubens referred to the nineteen-year-old van Dyck as "the best of my pupils". The origins and exact nature of their relationship are unclear. It has been speculated that van Dyck was a pupil of Rubens from about 1613, as even his early work shows little trace of van Balen's style, but there is no clear evidence for this. At the same time the dominance of Rubens in
5727-406: Was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy . The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy silk merchant in Antwerp , Anthony painted from an early age. He was successful as an independent painter in his late teens and became a master in the Antwerp Guild on 18 October 1617. By this time, he was working in
5810-414: Was a timber-framed building in the Middle Row of the Market Place just to the west of the junction with Bell Street and Duke Street, was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, and it had an assembly room on the first floor. A third and more substantial town hall was designed in the neoclassical style by local architect, Henry Bradshaw, with some ideas from Field Marshal Henry Conway :
5893-419: Was also admitted as master painter in the Guild and had studied with Geert Ghendrick., He had later become a successful merchant in silk and small writing articles. He had bought the birth house of Anthony called Den Berendans (The Bear Dance) on the Grote Markt in Antwerp (Main Square) in 1579. On Anthony's mother's side there were also a few artists who were Guild members. After his birth his family moved to
5976-416: Was an especial target, who eventually in 1630 came on a diplomatic mission, which included painting, and he later sent Charles more paintings from Antwerp. Rubens was very well-treated during his nine-month visit, during which he was knighted . Charles's court portraitist, Daniel Mytens , was a somewhat pedestrian Dutchman. Charles was very short, less than 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, and presented challenges to
6059-676: Was buried on 11 December, in the choir of St Paul's Cathedral . His mortal remains and tomb (erected by the king) were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. In the 17th century, demand for portraits was stronger than for other types of work. Van Dyck tried to persuade Charles to commission large-scale series on the history of the Order of the Garter for the Banqueting House, Whitehall , for which Rubens had earlier completed
6142-488: Was court painter for the Archduchess Isabella , Habsburg Governor of Flanders. At the request of Charles I of England he returned in 1632 to London as the main court painter. With the exception of Holbein , van Dyck and his contemporary Diego Velázquez were the first painters of pre-eminent talent to work mainly as court portraitists, revolutionising the genre. Van Dyck is best known for his portraits of
6225-525: Was designed by Henry Hare in the Baroque style , built in red brick with stone dressings by Messrs. McCarthy E. Fitt of Reading at a cost of £5,895 and was officially opened by the local member of parliament , Robert Hermon-Hodge , on 13 March 1901. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing east onto the Market Square; the central section, which slightly projected forward, featured
6308-558: Was freed from French imprisonment. A letter dated 13 August 1641, from Lady Roxburghe in England to a correspondent in The Hague, reported that van Dyck was recuperating from a long illness. In November, van Dyck's condition worsened, and he returned to England from Paris, where he had gone to paint Cardinal Richelieu . He died in Blackfriars, London on 9 December 1641, the same day as the baptism of his daughter Justiniana. He
6391-600: Was provided with a house on the River Thames at Blackfriars , then just outside the City of London , thus avoiding the monopoly of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers . A suite of rooms in Eltham Palace , no longer used by the royal family, was also put at his disposal as a country retreat. These residences were managed by his partner Margaret Lemon . His Blackfriars studio was frequently visited by
6474-713: Was quarantined during the 1624 plague, one of the worst in Sicily's history. There he produced an important series of paintings of the city's plague saint Saint Rosalia . His depictions of a young woman with flowing blonde hair wearing a Franciscan cowl and reaching down toward the city of Palermo in its peril, became the standard iconography of the saint from that time onward and was extremely influential for Italian Baroque painters, from Luca Giordano to Pietro Novelli . Versions include those in Madrid , Houston , London , New York and Palermo , as well as Saint Rosalia Interceding for
6557-410: Was surprised to find that the Queen, who looked so fine in painting, was a small woman raised up on her chair, with long skinny arms and teeth like defence works projecting from her mouth..." Some critics have blamed van Dyck for diverting a nascent, tougher English portrait tradition—of painters such as William Dobson , Robert Walker and Isaac Fuller —into what certainly became elegant blandness in
6640-473: Was taken under the wing of the court immediately, being knighted in July and at the same time receiving a pension of £200 a year, in the grant of which he was described as principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties . He was well paid for his paintings in addition to this, at least in theory, as King Charles did not actually pay over his pension for five years and reduced the price of many paintings. He
6723-668: Was that of a nobleman rather than an ordinary person, and he shone in rich garments. Since he was accustomed in the circle of Rubens to noblemen, and being naturally of elevated mind, and anxious to make himself distinguished, he therefore wore—as well as silks—a hat with feathers and brooches, gold chains across his chest, and was accompanied by servants." He was mostly based in Genoa , although he also travelled extensively to other cities, and stayed for some time in Palermo in Sicily , where he
6806-578: Was the daughter of Patrick Ruthven , who, although the title was forfeited, styled himself Lord Ruthven . She was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen in 1639–40; this may have been instigated by the King in an attempt to keep him in England. He had spent most of 1634 in Antwerp, returning the following year, and in 1640–41, as the Civil War loomed, spent several months in Flanders and France . In 1640 he accompanied prince John Casimir of Poland after he
6889-579: Was the most passionate collector of art among the Stuart kings and saw painting as a way of promoting his elevated view of the monarchy. In 1628, he bought the fabulous collection that the Duke of Mantua was forced to sell, and he had been trying since his accession in 1625 to bring leading foreign painters to England. In 1626, he was able to persuade Orazio Gentileschi to settle in England, later to be joined by his daughter Artemisia and some of his sons. Rubens
#562437