Charles I and Henrietta Maria Holding a Laurel Wreath

The first collaboration between Robert van Voerst, a Dutch engraver established in England in 1627, and Van Dyck, this print was published in 1634, shortly after the painter’s arrival in London. The engraving after the double-portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria from 1632 is the largest and most ambitious print published during the painter’s lifetime and illustrates the printmaker’s admirably limpid technique. Van Voerst produced just four more engravings after Van Dyck, all for the Iconographie, before he succumbed to the plague.