I think I'm going to have to set up a wish list so that some kind soul can buy me the new catalogue raisonnĂ© of the complete paintings of Anthony Van Dyck, an Antwerp man like Rubens but by far the better painter if you ask me. It's only £125, or $157 from Amazon.
Either that or I could call the Rubenianum in Antwerp tomorrow, where one of the authors is director, and try to blag a press copy. I wonder what the chances of that are.
Sir Anthony Van Dyck, self portrait. Note the natty eponymous beardlet.