Everyone knows that King Charles I was the least successful of England’s many Kings and Queens. The idea is traditional, well ...

For Orazio’s magnificent Madonna and Child (1609), he drafted as his models a neighbor from the parish of Santa Maria del Popolo ... Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck’s Discovery of ...

In 1921 Armand Hammer went to Russia and, realizing that there is almost nothing a bureaucracy needs so much as pencils, began to manufacture them for the newly established Soviet Government. He ...

90.2 x 110.5 cm. (35.5 x 43.5 in.) ...

lot 44 (as follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck), for £40, to Cleeves; Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 6 September 2006, lot 3, for £5,040. Catalogue Note This painting closely relates to Van Dyck's ...

Titled “Charles I in Three Positions,” and painted in the sixteen-thirties by Van Dyck, the work offers ... in 1625, with Henrietta Maria, the fifteen-year-old youngest daughter of the late ...

Hudson, born in Oakham, East Midlands, in 1619, was known as the Queen's dwarf. He was a favourite of Charles I's wife, Queen Henrietta Maria ... Flemish artist Van Dyck. His diminutive stature ...

Sir Jeffrey Hudson, who was born in Oakham, Rutland, in 1619, was a favourite of Queen Henrietta Maria ... They were later painted by Anthony Van Dyck standing together along with the Queen's ...

Besides portraits by van Dyck, there is another reason for Americans to be aware of Queen Henrietta Maria. (“A Queen Who Kept Her Head” by Catherine Ostler, Books, Oct. 8.) Her husband ...

Two paintings by Jack Butler Yeats were taken – ‘Batchelors Walk in the Morning and ‘Singing the Dark Rosaleen’, as well as three by the 17th century Dutch artist, Anthony Van Dyck – ‘King Charles I’, ...

The cache included letters between Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria – his always opened ‘My deare harte ... and he and his wife occupied themselves buying paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck, ...