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Van Dyck, Vandyke Sir Anthony. 1599--1641, Flemish painter; court painter to Charles I of England (1632--41). He is best known for his portraits of the aristocracy vandyke [van′dīk] (graphic arts) A process used for photocopying; the material is paper-sensitized with ferric iron and silver salts and then exposed to strong light; upon processing, a negative print of white lines on a brown background results; from this a brown-line print can be made. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature; but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke. His face, composed of red and white, like that of the Madonna of Vandyke, was furrowed by two silver rivulets which had dug their beds in his cheeks, as full formerly as they had become flabby since his grief began. "Sir," said Monte Cristo to him, "I do not recommend my pictures to you, who possess such splendid paintings; but, nevertheless, here are two by Hobbema, a Paul Potter, a Mieris, two by Gerard Douw, a Raphael, a Vandyke, a Zurbaran, and two or three by Murillo, worth looking at. |
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