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Like Dürer, Rembrandt and Goya, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) made a key contribution to the art of printmaking. He was himself a talented etcher, and prints after his paintings were cut by the best engravers of his day. Yet, to date, his printmaking has suffered from undeserved neglect. This book discusses Van Dyck's first acquaintance with the medium in Rubens's workshop and illuminates the genesis of the Iconography, a portrait gallery of illustrious contemporaries. All his etchings are catalogued together with preparatory drawings and grisailles, as well as proofs containing corrective flourishes. Furthermore the book includes a selection of the prints after paintings by Van Dyck. A number of them were the initiative of the artist himself, and others were produced on behalf of publishers and engravers. Works from the eighteenth century are included to illustrate the influence Van Dyck exerted until long after his death-- even in France and England.

The introductory essays discuss the collecting of Van Dyck prints, the phenomenon of the trial proof, and technical aspects of the etchings. Based on new archival research the biographies are included of all those who were instrumental in the production of the prints: engravers, publishers, and the persons to whom they were dedicated by Van Dyck.

Many of the prints are reproduced in color and the book has numerous comparative illustrations making it essential not only for scholars and enthusiasts of Van Dyck's work, but all those interested in the history of printmaking.
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This painstakingly thorough examination of van Dyck's extensive use of prints--including etchings, engravings, and aquatints--is the companion catalog to an exhibition in Antwerp celebrating the artist's birth 400 years ago, in 1699. Though he is best known for his paintings, van Dyck's prints influenced artists well into the 18th century and have always been prized by collectors and students of the history of printmaking. The book's introduction expresses the authors' hopes that it will prove accessible to the ordinary reader--and there are many sections that are fascinating. The descriptions of the 17th-century practice of ordering copper plates--which when delivered still bore hammer marks from the metalsmith who had created them, so that before beginning an etching the artist (or more likely his apprentices) had to make the surface flat--are just one example. Another is a description of the printmaking processes of the time that points out the "clots and pumples" on a plate that has been heated too rapidly, as a contemporary translator described the little bumps that appear in such well-known images as Rembrandt's Deposition, with its speckled ground. There is also a stunning array of images in various states, including preparatory drawings, proofs, corrected proofs, final prints, later engravings, and similar types of prints created in other ateliers of the time.

Van Dyck acquainted himself with printmaking in Rubens's workshop, and that artist's flair is evident throughout van Dyck's fluid, flashy, finely observed portraits. Van Dyck was not Rubens, however, or Rembrandt--both of whom employed printmaking as simply another medium to bend to their incomparable vision. His prints seem to have been executed mainly as advertisements, but the artist is so accomplished that it is surprising how little his work is discussed today. This scholarly, carefully produced book is filled with large color plates, and its type is set, blessedly, in such a way as to make its brilliantly detailed text highly legible, unlike many tomes of this type. With the exception of the slightly confusing captions, which often omit dates, it is a book that will go far in correcting contemporary neglect of this important artist. --Peggy Moorman ... Read more

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Chapters: Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Jacob Jordaens, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, David Teniers the Younger, Wenceslas Cobergher, Bentvueghels, Otto Van Veen, Roelant Savery, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, Philippe de Champaigne, Adriaen Van Utrecht, Antwerp School, David Joris, Cornelis Huysmans, Sebastian Vrancx, Louis de Caullery, Jan Fyt, Willem Van Herp, Cornelis de Vos, Adam Frans Van Der Meulen, Frans Snyders, Francisque Millet, Michiel Sweerts, Gonzales Coques, Pieter Snayers, Caspar de Crayer, Jan Van Den Hoecke, Hendrik de Clerck, Cornelis de Heem, François Roettiers, Justus Sustermans, Jacob Franquart, David Teniers the Elder, Luigi Primo, Pieter Van Lint, Jan Peeters I, Hendrick Van Balen, Jan Frans Van Bloemen, Lucas Achtschellinck, Cornelis de Wael, Deodat Del Monte, Adriaan Van Stalbemt, Jan Philips Van Thielen, Abraham Van Diepenbeeck, Pieter Van Avont, Clara Peeters, Lucas de Wael, Hendrik Van Steenwijk Ii, Joos de Momper, Joris Van Son, Abraham Janssens, Maarten Pepyn, Guglielmo Borremans, Abraham Brueghel, Jan de Wael I, Michele Desubleo, Carel Van Savoyen, Martin Ryckaert, Peter Franchoys, Robert Van Den Hoecke, Theodoor Van Loon, Jacob Huysmans, Pieter Neeffs I, Philip Fruytiers, Artus Wolffort, Maria Theresa Van Thielen, Pieter de Jode Ii, Frans Ykens, Frans Wouters, Jan Van Kessel, Senior, Jan Snellinck, Jan Van Den Hecke, Jan Thomas Van Ieperen, Lodewijk de Vadder, Jan Van Kessel, Junior, Adam Van Noort, Pieter Boel, Hendrik Andriessens, Jacob Van Es, Gaspar Van Den Hoecke, Theodoor Rombouts, Pieter Neeffs Ii, Lucas Franchoys the Elder, Willem Schubart Von Ehrenberg, Ambrosius Brueghel, Pieter Meert, Anton Ghering, Jan Siberechts, Herman de Neyt, Jan Miel, Marc Van Duvende, Ludovicus Neefs, Cornelis Mahu, Philip Gyselaer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 267. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=192486 ... Read more

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Title: Fifty Masterpieces of Anthony Van Dyck in Photogravure : Selected From the Pictures Exhibited at Antwerp in 1899. Described and Historically Explained With a Sketch of the Life of the ArtistPublisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston ; Philadelphia : J.B. LippincottPublication date: 1900Subjects: Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599-1641Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Francis Van Aarssens, Johan Banér, Anthony Van Dyck, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Domenico Zampieri, Pau Claris I Casademunt, Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Richard Montagu, Jeremiah Horrocks, Thomas Heywood, Ambrose Barlow, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, Gwanghaegun of Joseon, Richard Bernard, Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes, Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg, David Lindsay, Richard Meighen, Cornelis Jol, Jane Frances de Chantal, John Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Okehampton, Franciscus Gomarus, Susenghphaa, Ferdinand Poulton, George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Augustine Baker, John Everard, Thomas Cotes, Alonso de Contreras, Xu Xiake, Matthew Cradock, John Smethwick, Juan Martínez de Jáuregui Y Aguilar, Michiel Jansz. Van Mierevelt, Hedwig of Denmark, William Vaughan, Carlo Emanuele Pio Di Savoia, Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons, Maren Spliid, Aernout Van Buchel, Antony Hickey, Arthur Johnston, Matthijs Quast, John Davenant, Jan Van de Velde, Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, Henry Hylton, de Jure 12th Baron Hylton, Severin Binius, Robert Burhill, Thomas Mun, Elizabeth Trevannion, Countess of Monmouth, Henry Spelman, Richard Middleton, John Corbet, Marcin Wadowita, Hans Georg Von Arnim-Boitzenburg, John Percy, Henry Nevill, 9th Baron Bergavenny, John Thornborough, William Ward, Robert Maclellan, 1st Lord Kirkcudbright, Arima Naozumi, Seán O'neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Lazzaro Tavarone, Wilhelm Von Rath, John Amner, Iskandar Thani, Jan Lipski, Mukai Shogen Tadakatsu, Anthonie Verstraelen, Artus Wolffort, Henry Marten, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, Jean-Jacques Bouchard, Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet, Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Anne Lykke, Konstanty Wiśniowiecki, George Manners, 7th Earl of Rutland, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=294462 ... Read more

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8vo, stiff wrappers. 45 pp, 20 b/w illustrations. Lely was a painter who came to Engalnd in 1641, at the time of the marriage of William of Orange and Mary, daughter of England's King Charles I. He came under the influence of van Dyck and after that master's death acquired many paingings, drawings and prints from the artist's widow as well as from dispersal sales of two great contemporary collections, those of the Earl of Aurndel and Charles I. Upon Lely's death in 1680 his collection was sold at auction by his executor. Lankrink, also a painter, specialized in landscape and worked in Lely's studio executing backgrounds for Lely's portraits. Inspired by Lely, Lankrink, too, became a collector, also making purchases from the collections of Arundel and Charles I, as well as from the sales of Lely's estate. Lankrink's collection was sold at auction after his death in 1692. ... Read more

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Chapters: Anthony Van Dyck, Jost de Negker, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Mayken Verhulst, Pieter Van Avont, Master of the Lübeck Bible, Johanna Vergouwen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draftsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching. Self-portrait, 1613-14. Antoon Van Dyck (his Flemish name) was born to prosperous parents in Antwerp. His talent was evident very early, and he was studying painting with Hendrick van Balen by 1609, and became an independent painter around 1615, setting up a workshop with his even younger friend Jan Brueghel the Younger. By the age of fifteen he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his Self-portrait, 1613-14, shows. He was admitted to the Antwerp painters' Guild of Saint Luke as a free master by February 1618. Within a few years he was to be the chief assistant to the dominant master of Antwerp, and the whole of Northern Europe, Peter Paul Rubens, who made much use of sub-contracted artists as well as his own large workshop. His influence on 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 tra...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=294462 ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1887*Original Publisher: Grosvenor GallerySubjects: ArtArt / GeneralArt / Collections, Catalogs, ExhibitionsArt / CriticismArt / History / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / Individual ArtistArt / ReferenceArt / Study ... Read more

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Metropolitan Museum of Art,1985. Soft Cover. CBeautiful pictures of Anthony van Dyke art collection, numerous full-page color plates. ... Read more