Van Dyck

Malaga, are splendid in drawing, brilliant in a colouring that vividly recalls Van Dyck's, full of imagination, and bold in design.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

We are all familiar with the kind of ornamentation on clothes called Van Dyck -- pointed lace, or trimmings -- and pointed beards.

Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902

His work is widely distributed among the Scotch as well as the English descendants of the nobility whom he painted, so that the possession of at least one ancestral 'Van Dyck' accompanies very many patents of nobility, and is equivalent to a warrant of gentle birth.

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

a noble-looking youth, with his mother's eyes, and his father's curling brown hair, that fell over his point de Venise -- a pretty picture such as Van Dyck might have painted.

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Scala/Art Resource, NY The Brignole-Sales were barely in their 20s when Van Dyck, himself only 28 at the time, produced these enormous portraits.

Notice of Arrival Willard Spiegelman 2011

Van Dyck's portraits helped to ennoble many of the plutocrats.

Notice of Arrival Willard Spiegelman 2011

Even when Philip Mould isn't uncovering important artworks by the likes of Van Dyck or co-presenting the new BBC TV series "Fake or Fortune," life is all about aesthetics for the London art dealer and British portraiture specialist.

Philip Mould Unearths England's Bucolic Beauty Bruce Palling 2011

Like many painters up through the 19th century, Van Dyck aimed for the big stuff—historical and religious scenes—but we value him equally for his portraits.

Notice of Arrival Willard Spiegelman 2011

Each of ter Brugghen's paintings occupies its own wall in a room between galleries centered on Rubens and Van Dyck.

At National Gallery, two paintings by one Dutch master add up to a sublime exhibition 2011

Among the wonders in this show are the documentation of exotic flora from Captain Cook's voyages, a superb Van Dyck landscape, other on-the-spot landscapes by Turner and John Sell Cotman, battlefield reportage by Paul Nash and truly distressing recordings of soldiers' injuries by Charles Bell 1815 and by medical artists in the First World War.

The Tate's Flood of Inspiration Paul Levy 2011