SOLD FOR FOURPENCE.
$ . ■ ■A PORTRAIT BY VAN DYCK. DI XKLEGnAl'H—rniss ASSOCIATION—COITP.iani. Brussels, Deocmber 27. An authentic portrait Jiv Van Dyck, given to his sister; a nun, was auctionoed for fourpenoo. It was among rubbish found in a convent in Flanders. . Sir Anthony Van Dyck was born at Antwerp in 1599, and died at London in 1641. He was best known as a portrait painter, being a pupil, of Rubons, whom be assisted in some of his great compositions. 110 was in England 1620-21; in Italy about 1623-27; again' in Antworp; and after 1632 chielly in England. In 1632 ho lvas knighted and mado court, painter to Charles I. Among his, best known works are "Crucifixions" (especially ono at Mechlin), " Elevation of tho • Cross" (Caurtrai), "St. Aiigustino in Ecstasy" (Antwerp), and portraits ,of Charles I and . members of his family, and of other prominent people of the time. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 7
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147SOLD FOR FOURPENCE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 7
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