The great Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck’s drawing titled Head and Forequarters ... The first (a simple pen and ink drawing) seems – as Seifert suggests – to have been drawn on location.

The younger artist, Anthony Van Dyck, made a quick pen and ink drawing and wrote down his impressions of Sofonisba Anguissola, then apparently 96 years old and almost blind. He was struck by her ...