http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/uncategorized/rubens-and-the-linder-gallery-excerpt-from-a-mysterious-masterpiece A Mysterious Masterpiece Mon, 10 May 2010 13:36:08 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/uncategorized/rubens-and-the-linder-gallery-excerpt-from-a-mysterious-masterpiece/comment-page-1#comment-54 Alex Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:03 +0000 http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/?p=402#comment-54 The visit to Antwerp is certainly a possibility. While we don't know Linder's movements before the 1620s, and don't have an explicit connection to Antwerp (other than the Linder interior itself), he traded internationally in luxury goods, of which Antwerp was a major producer, and Rubens was always keen to meet anyone interesting and well off! I reckon the Van Dyck identification is plausible, too, although that middle figure seems to me to be drawn less distinctly than the other two, the features somewhat less defined. The visit to Antwerp is certainly a possibility. While we don’t know Linder’s movements before the 1620s, and don’t have an explicit connection to Antwerp (other than the Linder interior itself), he traded internationally in luxury goods, of which Antwerp was a major producer, and Rubens was always keen to meet anyone interesting and well off! I reckon the Van Dyck identification is plausible, too, although that middle figure seems to me to be drawn less distinctly than the other two, the features somewhat less defined.

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