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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Anthony Van Dyck," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Anthony Van Dyck in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Anthony Van Dyck when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Anthony Van Dyck, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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The Arvndel Library: Anthony Van Dyck. A Further Study By Lionel Cust with Twenty-five Illustrations in Colour Executed Under the Supervision of the Medici Society. A L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES BEAUX ARTS D'ANVERS. HOMMAGE. LIONEL CUST (MEMBRE HONORAIRE). JUILLET 1911. Tex printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty, Edinburgh Plates engraved and printing by Henry Stone and Son, LTD, Banbury. (More photos of book provided by request) ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Eminent Painters, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766104060. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Joshua Reynolds, William Kent, Thomas Lawrence, Anthony Van Dyck, George Hayter, David Wilkie, Allan Ramsay, Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller, John Shackleton, Margaret Carpenter, James Sant. Excerpt:Allan Ramsay Portrait of David Hume by Allan Ramsay, 1766. Portrait of George III, circa 1762. Allan Ramsay (13 October 1713 10 August 1784) was a Scottish portrait-painter . Life and career Allan Ramsay was born in Edinburgh , Scotland , the eldest son of Allan Ramsay , poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd . Ramsay's first wife, Anne Bayne, by Ramsay Ramsay's second wife Margaret Lindsay, by Ramsay From the age of twenty he studied in London under the Swedish painter Hans Hysing , and at the St. Martin's Lane Academy; leaving in 1736 for Rome and Naples , where he worked for three years under Francesco Solimena and Imperiali (Francesco Fernandi ). On his return in 1738 he first settled in Edinburgh, attracting attention by his head of Duncan Forbes of Culloden and his full-length portrait of the Duke of Argyll , later used on Royal Bank of Scotland banknotes. He later moved to London, where he was employed by the Duke of Bridgewater . His pleasant manners and varied culture, not less than his artistic skill, contributed to render him popular. His only serious competitor was Thomas Hudson , with whom he shared a drapery painter, Joseph van Aken . In 1739 he married his first wife, Anne Bayne, the daughter of a professor of Scots law at Edinburgh, Alexander Bayne of Rires (c.1684 1737), and Mary Carstairs (1695? 1759). None of their 3 children survived childhood, and she died on 4 February 1743 giving birth to the third of them. One of his drawing pupils was Margaret Lindsay , eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelick and Amelia Murray (granddaughter to David Murray, 5th Vis... ... Read more