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Baroque 

Highly emotional style in architecture, painting and sculpture, at height from c.1630–80 in Rome but influential across Europe. Greatest exponents: sculptor and architect Bernini in Rome, and in northern Europe, Rubens, whose ceiling decorations done for Charles I (Stuart) in the Banqueting Hall in London are still in place. Rubens's great pupil Van Dyck in Britain 1632 to death in 1641 as Charles's court painter. British followers Dobson, Lely, Huysmans, Kneller, and painters of wall and ceiling decorations such as Verrio and Thornhill.
 

Sir Anthony Van Dyck, A Lady of the Spencer Family, circa 1633-8
Sir Anthony Van Dyck
A Lady of the Spencer Family
circa 1633-8
 
Jacob Huysmans, Portrait of a Lady, as Diana, ?circa 1674
Jacob Huysmans
Portrait of a Lady, as Diana
?circa 1674
 
Sir Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of John Banckes, 1676
Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of John Banckes
1676