As Antwerp celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Anthony van Dyck , Paul Allen visits the city to explore the life and work of one of the world's exceptional painters.
Recognised as a child prodigy and praised by Rubens, Van Dyck established his own workshop while still a teenager, producing religious works for Antwerp's churches as well as mythological paintings. But it is as a painter of portraits that he pushed back boundaries. Paul Allen discusses a major exhibition which opens this week in Amsterdam and comes to London in September. Producer Zahid Warley