Atelier d'Antoine Van Dyck (1599-1641)

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Atelier d'Antoine Van Dyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Isabella Waerbeke Oil on canvas 68 x 55 cm. Presented in a beautiful Louis XIII style frame, cartouche titled "Van Dyck" Our painting is a delicate reworking, in bust form, of the full-length portrait painted around 1628, in Antwerp, and now kept in London, at the Wallace Collection (119.7 x 94.2 cm, inv P16). Isabella Waerbake, wife of the animal painter Paul de Vos (1592-1678), was, together with her husband, a very prominent couple in Antwerp's artistic society in its heyday. Van Dyck was one of their friends, as Rubens, his master, was godfather to Peter Paul de Vos, one of the couple's sons. Van Dyck had painted a portrait of her husband as a counterpart to the portrait of Isabella, which was on display on the first floor of their Antwerp home. The pair was sold to Peter Paul in 1675, changed hands and became part of the collection of Henry Hope (1735-1811) until it was sold in 1816 to the Marquis of Hertford (1777-1842). For some unknown reason, he separated the pair and gave the portrait of the husband to the Belgian royal family. It disappeared in the flames of the Laeken Palace on January 1, 1890.
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