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Rubens and his pupil Van Dyck: and it was the Arundels who were largely responsible for introducing these two painters to England. Helen Rosslyn, Bought With Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections I: The Pioneers, BBC 2013
However accomplished Van Dyck was at painting the landscape it was still just a background. This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting, BBC 2011
The arrival in Britain of Anthony van Dyck changed everything here. Waldemar Januszczak, Baroque! From St Peter’s to St Paul's III, BBC 2009
How effortlessly he seemed to capture the elegance and swagger of Charles’s court. Waldemar Januszczak, The Lost Genius of British Art ... William Dobson
In December 1641 just a few weeks before the Civil War broke out the Fates arranged for Van Dyck to die. ibid.
Petworth House: There are 17 Van Dycks in the house … [and] Portrait of an Unknown Genoese Lady … I’m convinced it’s by Van Dyck. Britain’s Lost Masterpieces s3e3: Petworth, BBC 2018
We hunt for a painting hidden within a painting … Could it be the work of Sir Anthony van Dyck, the man who revolutionised English art? Fake or Fortune? s2e3: Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath, BBC 2012
Van Dyck was the greatest portrait painter of his day, the King’s painter. Face of Britain by Simon Schama IV, BBC 2015
Painting in England with a level of skill no native artist can touch, Anthony van Dyke creates extraordinary portraits of the rich and famous. Art that Made Us IV: To Kill a King, BBC 2022
Sir Anthony van Dyck had been born in Antwerp in 1599. He had natural talent, and painted this remarkable self-portrait when he was just 15. James Fox, A Very British Renaissance III: Whose Renaissance? BBC 2014
If you asked van Dyck to paint your portrait, the first thing you’d get is a price list. ibid.
Over the next few years van Dyck’s studio knocked out dozens of such portraits. In van Dyck’s hands his wealthy sitters were transformed. Haughty poses, magnificent outfits, the British had never looked quite so stylish. Not for nothing are these known as ‘swagger portraits’. ibid.
Van Dyck painted male power as well as female beauty. Andrew Graham-Dixon, A History of British Art II: North & South, BBC 1996