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A storage box for over a century in the
Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
has been identified as a work of seventeenth-century master
Anthonius van
Dyck, reports AFP.
"The Virgin and Child", until now seen a copy
shows the Child Jesus in the arms of the Virgin Mary under the watchful eye of Mary Magdalene, King David and the Prodigal Son.

The work now attributed to Van Dyck has spent more than a century "hidden" in the basement of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, according to AFP news agency has quoted the newspaper "El País".

restoration experts in July began a thorough study of "The Virgin and Child 'by using X-ray
pigments and ended confirming that indeed it was a Van Dyck.
Van Dyck painted the work around 1625 and originally
was part of the collection of the Duke of Medina de las Torres
, English viceroy of Naples. A mid-seventeenth century was brought to the Monastery of the Escorial, where he got rid of the looting of Napoleon's invasion in 1808, then finish at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Van Dyck, who died in 1641 at age 42, he painted over 800 paintings. A self-portrait painted a few months before his death
was sold for 9.5 million euros at auction in Paris in 2009 .
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The last self-portrait by Van Dyck reaches a price
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London .- The last self-portrait Van Dyck painted by the artist shortly before his death in London, was auctioned last night at Sotheby's for 8.3 million pounds (9.1 million euros, 13.5 billion dollars), well above its estimated value , which is a record for the artist.
"Self Portrait", dated 1641, was the subject of a heated bidding by nine stakeholders over almost tripling the maximum price anticipated by the auctioneers, who had hoped to raise as much 3 million pounds.
The last record set by a Flemish painter's work was with "A horse backwards", sold by Christie's in 2008 for 3.06 million pounds.
Van Dyck took only three self-portraits during their stay in London, one of the other two, which appears next to his friend Endymion Porter, remains in Madrid's Prado museum, while the other is in the collection of the Duke of Westminster.
The portrait was offered for sale last night is the author of foil-halves and elegantly dressed in a black silk jacket with white stripes. The painting, which has been in the same private collection since 1712, was featured in the exhibition that recently devoted to the artist Tate Britain flamenco. portrait is believed that once belonged to the British painter Peter Lely, a pupil of Van Dyck and painter Charles II, who succeeded his teacher as the most sought-after portraitist of the country. Born in Antwerp in 1599, Van Dyck first traveled to England in 1620, and in 1632 settled permanently in London, where he became court painter to Charles I. had a remarkable influence on the genre of portraiture in the UK and particularly in other artists such as Reynolds and Gainsborough.
Prompt treatment and the fact that the artist leave without covering the lower layers of paint on the corners of the canvas seem to indicate that it is an unfinished work or maybe a painted sketch from nature and should serve as a basis for a portrait later, more finished.
Anton van Dyck
- Wikipedia


El último autorretrato de Van Dyck alcanza un precio récord en subasta
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