William Dobson was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred". He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.
Self-portrait, late 1630s
Portrait of the artist, William Dobson (centre), with Nicholas Lanier (left) and Sir Charles Cotterell (right), c. 1645
The Executioner with the Head of John the Baptist, c. 1640
Endymion Porter, c. 1642–1645
Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (after 1633)
Self-portrait, 1613–14
The Lomellini family, 1623
Landscape with a Gnarled Tree and a Farm, Pen and brown ink, The Met