Unmistakable splendour From: The Spectator | Date: September 18, 1999| Author: | Copyright Spectator Sep 18, 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Exhibitions 2

Van Dyck

(Royal Academy, till 10 December)

Unmistakable splendour

Andrew Lambirth

Van Dyck is back in London with a vengeance. On the 400th anniversary of his birth, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, ultra-sophisticate and court painter to Charles I, is being roundly feted in the city in which he spent most of the last nine years of his life. Three exhibitions celebrate his quatercentenary, and chief among them is the sumptuous retrospective at the Royal Academy, which comes, primed with success, from the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, Van Dyck's home town. More than ...

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