Van Dyck painted the self-portrait shortly before his death in 1641
Image: BBC
I was very pleased to read on the BBC News website today that the self-portrait by Sir Antony van Dyke that was at risk of leaving the country has been saved for the National Portrait Gallery. It is one of only three self-portaits by the artist ,and the last he produced, only a few months before his death in 1641, when the world of the court of King Charles I, which he had immortalised, and maybe idealised, crumbled at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Quite apart from its historic interest it is a lovely painting, and rather haunting in its quality.
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