Self-portrait with a sunflower

Self-portrait with a sunflower is a 1632–33 self-portrait by Anthony van Dyck. It is now in the private collection of the Duke of Westminster.

It was produced at the height of his fame, while he was 'principal Paynter in order to their Majesties' at the court of Charles I of England, who also knighted him. He wears the gold chain given to him by Charles and holds a large sunflower, whose symbolism is much debated.^[1]

References

↑ Christopher Brown, Van Dyck 1599-1641, Milano, RCS Libri, 1999, ISBN 88-17-86060-3., p 244

External links

Study or copy of the painting by van Dyck or Henry Stone - Trinity College, Cambridge

Anthony van Dyck
List of paintings
Religious subjects	The Betrayal of Christ (1618–1620) (Bristol; Madrid; Minneapolis) Christ Crowned with Thorns (1619–20) Crucifixion (1630) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–1619) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1615; 1618; 1619; 1629; 1629–30; 1634; 1635; 1640) Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Madonna and Child (1621–1627) The Mocking of Christ (1628–1630) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (1619–20) Saint Martin and the Beggar (1618) Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo (1624) Samson and Delilah (1620; 1630) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–30)
Mythological subjects	Cupid and Psyche (1638–40) Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) The Shepherd Paris (1628) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–32)
Portraits	Charles I (Equestrian; At the Hunt; Triple Portrait; with M. de St Antoine) Henrietta Maria (As St Catherine; Triple Portrait) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) Olivia Boteler Porter
Self-portraits	1613–14 1632–33 1635 (with Endymion Porter) 1640
Related	Van Dyke beard

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