Catharine MacLeod

Van Dyck in Context with National Portrait Gallery curator Catharine MacLeod

Catharine MacLeod, Curator of Seventeenth-Century Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, will give an in depth introduction to Sir Anthony van Dyck's last self-portrait.

From working as an assistant in Rubens' Antwerp studio to becoming the leading painter at the court of King Charles I in England, the talk will outline Van Dyck's artistic career and consider his prominent place in the history of British portraiture.