Jul 2
Portrait of Anna Wake
Artist: Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641)
Date: 1621
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
Description
The wealthy cloth merchant Peeter Stevens (c. 1590-1668) was thirty-seven years old when he had his portrait painted by Van Dyck in 1627. On 12 March 1628, Stevens married twenty-two-yearold Anna Wake (1605-before 1669), the eldest daughter of the Englishman Lionel Wake, a Catholic merchant and resident of Antwerp, who was a good friend of Rubens. The portrait of Anna Wake was most likely commissioned to mark their marriage, as the pendant to the existing portrait of her husband. The square ring on Wake’s left thumb is probably her wedding ring.
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