645 - Anthonis van Dyck, Circle, Portrait of Jan Wildens, 17th-century oil painting, in original size

Anthonis van Dyck, Circle, Portrait of Jan Wildens, 17th-century oil painting, in original size Sir Anthonis van Dyck, 1599 Antwerp - 1641 London, a leading Flemish painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, circle, here: Famous portrait of the Flemish landscape painter Jan Wildens (1585/86-1653), painted by Anthonis van Dyck around 1620-1621. Jan Wildens was a well-known Antwerp painter who often collaborated with Peter Paul Rubens; oil on canvas, with partial historical restorations and retouching, 80 x 60 cm, framed About the portrait: Van Dyck’s masterpiece (oil on canvas, approx. 75 x 58 cm) was formerly housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, but has been considered lost since the Second World War (1945). Various contemporary engravings exist (inter alia those by Paulus Pontius for van Dyck’s famous series of prints, *Iconographia*, as well as contemporary copies - as in the present case - and smaller oil studies in various collections)