Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby on her Death-Bed (detail), Anthony Van Dyck, 1633, Bourgeois bequest 1811

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The Collection

Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world's most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. The collection is also one of the oldest in Great Britain.

The Collection

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Lady Digby

Venetia Stanley went to bed one night and never woke up again leaving many grieving people. Her husband, so distraught, asked Van Dyke to capture her beauty while she lay dead in bed. Ian Dejardin gives us an insight into why she died so mysteriously.

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