A Van Dyck Painting Rediscovered Online

Posted on March 10, 2013 by briansandberg

An Anthony Van Dyck portrait has been identified in an online database. The previously unidentified painting was in storage at a museum in the United Kingdom, but a digital image of the portrait was recently added to an online database, where an art historian recognized it.

Van Dyck-rediscovered

The painting has been identified as a portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter, who was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England.

The BBC reports on the discovery.

 

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