The Most Expensive Works by Anthony van Dyck to Sell at Auction

Last week, an early-career portrait of Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos and his family by then 20-year-old artist Anthony van Dyck hit the block at a Sotheby’s Old Masters evening sale in London. Recovered by the famed World War II team of art experts known as the Monuments Men and returned to its original Jewish-Dutch owners in 1948, the painting wound up selling for $3.4 million, making it the sixth-most expensive work by the artist ever to sell at auction.
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