Shown from about the hips up, a young, pale-skinned man with curly brown hair stands facing and looking at us, wearing a plum-purple coat under a golden yellow cape in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s oval face is angled a little to our left so he looks out from the corners of his gray eyes. His left eyebrow, on our right, is slightly arched. His skin is smooth and his cheeks lightly flushed. He has a long, straight nose, his pink lips are closed, and there is a faintly painted suggestion of a goatee. Wavy bangs fall across his forehead, and he has curly, chin-length hair. He…
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Philip, Lord Wharton

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

1632

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 133 x 106 cm (52 3/8 x 41 3/4 in.) ; framed: 171.8 x 144.1 cm (67 5/8 x 56 3/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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