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| Lucas van Uffel (died 1637) |
Artist:Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London)
Date:ca. 1622
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:49 x 39 5/8 in. (124.5 x 100.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Van Uffel was a wealthy Flemish merchant who lived in Venice, where Van Dyck probably painted this portrait early in his Italian period (1621–27). In another portrait (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brauschweig), Van Dyck shows the same sitter authoritatively posed before a view of ships sailing off a Mediterranean coast. Ours, by contrast, shows Van Uffel as a learned gentleman, with signs of his varied interests: dividers, a recorder, the bow of a viola da gamba, an antique head, a drawing, and a celestial globe.
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