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AUTHOR’S NOTEIt was at the beginning of the seventeenth century that the English aristocrats became connoisseurs and began making collections for their Stately Homes.
The greatest portrait painter of the era was Sir Anthony Van Dyck and it is thought that he was seen first in Rubens’s Studio in Antwerp by travelling Noblemen.
It was men like Thomas Howard the Earl of Arundel, who persuaded Van.Dyck to come to England.
After eleven years, when his skill was known and admired all over Europe, he returned to England for a second time to begin a series of portraits of the Royal Family.
His triple portrait of King Charles I was a brilliant example of his skill.
Another of Van Dyck’s wonderful portraits was of Thomas Wentworth the Earl of Stafford, while others were of Lord Derby and the Earl of Penbrook.
It became a trademark of every Van Dyck picture that the hands of his subject, with their thin aristocratic fingers, were outstanding and different from the hands painted by any other artist.
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