Van Dyck: at the Carolinian court

The works of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, currently the subject of Tate Britain's exhibition, provide an exceptional record of early seventeenth-century court life. To complement this exhibition, we present the biographies of some of Van Dyck’s sitters whose portraits appear at Tate Britain. Click on the images to read more about those who shaped political, religious, and cultural life in Carolinian Britain.

You may also be interested in the biographies of two of Van Dyck’s closest friends and patrons who also feature in the exhibition: Endymion Porter, and Thomas Howard, fourteenth earl of Arundel.

The Oxford DNB includes biographies of 56,800 men and women who have shaped British history from the Romans to 2005. Find out more.