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| Anonymous painter Portrait of an unknown woman ca. 1635 National Portrait Gallery, London |
As the 1630s unscrolled, brocade declined, increasingly regarded as elderly-seeming and old-fashioned rather than dignified and opulent. Silk satin began to present itself as the high-status fabric of the future. Painters were not slow to exploit the new taste for shiny surfaces.
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| Michael Janz van Mierevelt Portrait of Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon 1631 National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Ottavio Leoni Portrait drawing of a lady 1637 Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anthony van Dyck Double portrait of Thomas Killigrew and William, Lord Crofts 1638 Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) is now generally acknowledged as the greatest portraitist of the European 1630s. Curators at the Royal Collection explain that in the double portrait above both Thomas Killigrew and his friend had been recently bereaved by family deaths. The two were painted together as part of their effort to support one another in grief. Van Dyck painted Cesare Alessandro Scaglia (below) in several guises. The Abbé Scaglia had amassed a fortune serving the House of Savoy as diplomat and intriguer. Van Dyck met Scaglia after the latter's retirement (in disgrace) to Brussels. Curators at the National Gallery in London confirm that the compositional outline of Scaglia in Adoration was sketched originally in Italy by Van Dyck from a painting by Titian that has subsequently been lost.
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| Anthnoy van Dyck Portrait of the Abbé Scaglia adoring the Virgin & Child 1634-35 National Gallery, London |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Zeger van Hontsum ca. 1630 Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of an unknown man ca. 1630 Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and her sister ca. 1637 National Gallery, London |
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| G. Donck Portrait of Jan van Hensbeeck with his wife and child 1630s National Gallery, London |
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| attributed to John Hoskins Miniature portrait of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland 1630s National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous painter Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria ca. 1635 National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy Portrait of a man 1632 Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Bartholomeus Sarburgh Portrait of Belia Claesdr 1630 Rijksmuseum |
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| Paulus Moreelse A Shepherdess 1630 Rijksmuseum |