A portrait by Joan Carlile reappears

Image: A portrait of Catherine Lyttleton by Joan Carlile Instagram via. Pip Shergold @Shergoldco The business of attribution is a curious thing. At times, we can suggest in an instant that this picture must be by so-and-so. Yet, at other times, attributions to certain painters requires the slow burn of research and rumination. Whilst swiping……

Armour for Boys – Van Dyck & the Prince of Wales

Image: Prince of Wales, later Charles II, by Sir Anthony Van Dyck. Sotheby’s, London. Although it might be bewildering to modern audiences, princely armour made for children was fairly common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sotheby’s are auctioning off an outstanding Van Dyck in the upcoming Old Master Paintings sale of the eleven year……

Charles’s Queen Gets the Chop

Image: Queen Henrietta Maria, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, formerly in the collection of Warwick Castle, currently Private collection, USA. (Photograph by Stephen Hand) In 2015 Merlin Entertainments sold a portrait of a Queen of England at public auction in London. Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), wife to King Charles I, was by all accounts not the most……

A Stranger in Warsaw

Image: Portrait of a man by an Imitator of Van Dyck, oil on canvas, 76 x 65cm. National Museum, Warsaw. (164201) The National Museum in Poland has recently done a fantastic job of uploading their collection online. These exhaustive databases are the perfect way to explore the stores of a gallery or museum from literally……