Anthony van Dyck with Dr Eugene Barilo von Reisberg

No consideration of portraiture in Britain is complete without a reference to Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). Working at the Court of Charles I, the artist created some of the most iconic portraits of the society on the precipice of disaster, by which we still continue defining the splendour and pageantry of the Stuart Court.

The lecture examines the celebrated masterpieces that the Flemish-born artist produced on both sides of the Channel, and which set an iconographic canon for generations of artists to come.

Dr Eugene Barilo von Reisberg is a Melbourne-based scholar and art adviser, who shares his passion for art, history and culture from the 18th century to the present day through regular lectures and publications.