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Van Dyck made this watercolour sketch on his second stay in Britain (1632–1641). About 30 of the great portraitist’s landscape drawings survive, including a group of four watercolours of Rye in Sussex; this work too may have been made in the coastal town’s vicinity. Some of the sketches formed the basis of the backgrounds of Van Dyck’s portraits, though not in this case. The rapid execution of the watercolour, with areas left untouched or only roughly worked up, combined with the informality of the composition, suggest that it was made directly from nature.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Birmingham

Title

An English Landscape

Date

1635–1641

Medium

watercolour and bodycolour, over pen and brown ink on paper

Measurements

H 18.9 x W 26.7 cm

Accession number

39.2

Acquisition method

purchased, 1939

Work type

Watercolour

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TS England

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Artist or maker

Anthony van Dyck

1599–1641

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