中文简介：

本书以Anthony van Dyck的艺术和遗产为中心，阐述了现代早期英格兰的绘画。

Anthony van Dyck（1599-1641）是英国知名的宫廷画家，他改变了英国艺术家的职业身份。他创作的肖像画成为一种宫廷奇观，在冒犯传统等级制度捍卫者的同时，也启发了诗人和剧作家。

本书还原了作家和画家对van Dyck的肖像画的反应，为英国艺术的历史自我意识提供了另一种视角。本书仔细解读艺术作品和诗歌、戏剧、早期传记和工作室八卦等文本，追踪了Mary Beale、William Hogarth、Richard、Maria Cosway等艺术家对van Dyck艺术的接受情况，为van Dyck创立英国肖像画流派这一说法提供历史佐证。

英文简介：

A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck

As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) transformed the professional identities available to English artists. By making his portrait sittings into a form of courtly spectacle, Van Dyck inspired poets and playwrights at the same time that he offended guardians of traditional hierarchies. A self-consciously Van Dyckian lineage of artists, many of them women, extends from his lifetime to the end of the eighteenth century and beyond.

Recovering the often surprising responses of both writers and painters to Van Dyck's portraits, this book provides an alternative perspective on English art's historical self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van Dyck's art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth, and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English school of portraiture.