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After Sir Anthony van Dyck: Three Photogravures Of - Sir Anthony van Dyck (Dutch, 1599-1641) After: Three Photogravures from the portfolio ”Etchings by Van Dyck : twenty-four plates in Rembrandt photogravure”, the full size of the rare first states / with an introduction by Hans W. Singer ; edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Printed on heavy paper. Published: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. Printed by Percy Lund Humphries and Co., LTD., The Country Press, Bradford; and 3, Amen Corner, London, E.C. Apart from Rubens, Sir Anthony van Dyck was the most important Flemish painter of the 17th Century. After a brief apprenticeship with van Balen, he became a member of the Antwerp painter's guild and in came under the tutorship of Ruben's himself working as the great master's assistant. Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. 16 x 11 inches with margins. Private collection, Illinois.