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Portrait of a Man Standing, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Public domain

Portrait of a Man Standing

Sir Anthony van Dyck · black and red chalk with charcoal on laid paper

Public domain

Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.

How this license was checked

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About this picture

Portrait of a Man Standing is a public-domain drawing by Sir Anthony van Dyck. Black and red chalk with charcoal on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.

“Portrait of a Man Standing” (date not listed) is a portrait in Van Dyck’s court manner: an elegant pose, with the hands often as finished as the face.

About the artist

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was a Flemish portrait painter, trained near Rubens, who became court painter to Charles I in London. The pose is elegant and the hands are often as finished as the face.

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