Van Dyck's lover on show
New view: Lady Stanhope
A PORTRAIT of a London society lady by her lover, Sir Anthony van Dyck, is to go on show for the first time in more than a century.
The picture of Lady Katherine Stanhope, later Countess of Chesterfield, will be one of the finds at an exhibition of 130 van Dyck works at Tate Britain. It has not been seen in public since it emerged at auction two years ago.
The greatest painter in 17th-century Britain is thought to have fallen for Lady Katherine when he was principal at the court of King Charles I. Van Dyck and Britain opens on 17 February.
