VAN DYCK AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH PORTRAITURE

Recovering the often surprising responses of both writers and painters to Van Dycks portraits, this book provides an alternative perspective on English arts historical self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van Dycks art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth, and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English scho...[Read more]