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Dyck, Sir Anthony van

(Encyclopedia)Dyck, Sir Anthony van: see Van Dyck, Sir Anthony. ...

Van Dyck, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Van Dyck or Vandyke, Sir Anthony both: văn dīk [key], 1599–1641, Flemish portrait and religious painter and etcher, b. Antwerp. In 1618 he was received as a master in the artists' guild, but even ...

Vandyke, Sir Anthony

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Dyck, Christopher van

(Encyclopedia)Dyck, Christopher van vän dīkˈ [key], 1601–c.1672, German designer and maker of printing type, who worked in Amsterdam. Types that he designed were used by the Elzevir firm. His roman typeface wa...

Van Dyck, Cornelius Van Alen

(Encyclopedia)Van Dyck, Cornelius Van Alen, 1818–95, American missionary, b. Kinderhook, N.Y. In 1840 he went to Syria as a medical missionary. In 1846 he was ordained in the Congregational ministry. Besides bein...

Sherley, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Sherley, Sir Anthony: see Shirley, Sir Anthony. ...

More, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)More, Sir Anthony: see Moro, Antonio. ...

Panizzi, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Panizzi, Sir Anthony pänētˈsē [key], 1797–1879, British librarian, b. Italy. A political exile, Panizzi settled in England in 1823 and was naturalized in 1832. He was associated with the British...

Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope

(Encyclopedia)Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope: see Hope, Anthony. ...

Shirley, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Shirley or Sherley, Sir Anthony, 1565–1636?, English adventurer. He fought in the Netherlands (1586) under the earl of Leicester and in France (1591) under the earl of Essex, who became his patron. ...