By Raynaud de Lage Thomas and Nayebi Reza, Lycée Alexandre Dumas, Saint-Cloud, France
His life
Anthony Van Dyck was born in Antwerp in 1599 and died in 1641 in London. He was raised in a prosperous family, he was the 7th of twelve children; his father was a wealthy merchant. His mother died when he was only 8 years old. He was with Rubens, his master, the main representative of Flemish Baroque painting. He started his studies at the age of ten with Hendrick Van Balen, and was working by himself at sixteen and already had an apprentice. When he was nineteen he entered the Antwerp painters' Guild of Saint Luke .
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