Van Dyke beard
A Van Dyke (sometimes spelled Vandyke,[1] or Van Dyck[2]) is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).[3][4] The artist's name is today normally spelt as "van Dyck", though there are many variants, but when the term for the beard became popular "Van Dyke" was more common in English. A Van Dyke specifically consists of any growth of both a moustache and goatee with all hair on the cheeks shaved.[3] Even this particular style, though, has many variants, including a curled moustache versus a non-curled one and a soul patch versus none. The style is sometimes called a "Charlie" after King Charles I of England, who was painted with this type of beard by van Dyck.[5] "Pike-devant" or "pickedevant" are other little-known synonyms for a Van Dyke beard.[6]
Popularity
This style of beard was popular in Europe in the 17th century.
The style was worn by van Dyck himself and by many of the sitters for his portraits, including King
John Hurt wore a Van Dyke when playing the War Doctor on the Doctor Who episodes The Night of the Doctor and The Day of the Doctor.
Guy Fawkes, member of the Gunpowder Plot at the beginning of the 17th century, had also a Van Dyke beard around the time period when the namesake was born; his face is still shown in public today by various movements due to the stylised Guy Fawkes mask.
Examples
-
Maurice, Prince of Orange, byMichiel van Mierevelt(c. 1613–20)
-
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, unknown artist (1614)
-
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, by Peter Paul Rubens(1621)
-
Gustavus Adolphus, attrib. Jacob Hoefnagel (1624)
-
Willem Isaacsz Swanenburg(1625)
-
Charles I of England by Anthony van Dyck (1635-6)
-
Cardinal de Richelieu, by Philippe de Champaigne(c. 1642)
-
Antonio María Esquivel (1847)
-
Self-portrait by Jean Augustin Daiwaille Dutch portrait painter (1801-1850)
-
Self-portrait by Karl Bryullov Russian painter (1848)
-
Winfield Scott Hancock (1863)
-
George Armstrong Custer (1865)
-
Matías Moreno (1866)
-
Buffalo Bill (William Cody) (c. 1875)
-
Edward S. Curtis (1899)
-
Wilhelm Maybach (1900)
-
Vladimir Lenin (1920)
-
Rudolph Valentino (1924)
-
Walter Ulbricht (1951)
-
Colonel Sanders (c. 1974)
-
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani(1988)
-
Pierce Brosnan (2005)
-
James Franco (2007)
-
Christian Bale (2009)
-
Johnny Depp (2011)
See also
References
- ISBN 0486797252, 9780486797250
- ^ LIFE. Time Inc. April 24, 1939.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-57356-204-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-55152-107-7.
- ISBN 978-0-8018-6784-2.
- ^ "pike-devant". wordnik. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-313-33145-9.
- ^ "Van Dyke Beard style". Indore(M.P.), India.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Westminster Review". 62 (121). Leonard Scott Publication. July 1854: 33.
{{cite journal}}
: Cite journal requires|journal=
(help)
External links
- Media related to Van Dyke beards at Wikimedia Commons