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DYCK, Sir Anthony van: Self-Portrait at the Age of Sixteen

🖼 Self-Portrait at the Age of Sixteen, c. 1615
Oil on wood
26 × 20 cm
Vienna, Austria

Golden light illuminates a youthful face rendered with remarkable sensitivity, the artist's dark eyes meeting ours with confident directness. Van Dyck's precocious technical mastery—evident in fluid brushwork and subtle modeling—announced the arrival of Flanders' greatest portraitist at just sixteen.

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