Sir Anthony van Dyck, (painter), Flemish, 1599 - 1641, Susanna Fourment and Her Daughter, 1621, oil on canvas, overall: 172 ⊙ 117 cm, 106 lb. (67 11/16 ⊙ 46 1/16 in., 48.081 kg), framed: 204.47 ⊙ 149.86 ⊙ 12.7 cm (80 1/2 ⊙ 59 ⊙ 5 in.), In this tender image of a mother and daughter, Anthony van Dyck has conveyed the full extent of his artistic abilities. Even in a formal portrait like this one, he has ably captured the warmth, love, and reassurance of the parent-child relationship through gaze, gesture, and even bearing. The woman is almost certainly Susanna Fourment, identified by a drawing of Van Dyck's one-time mentor and frequent collaborator Peter Paul Rubens, and her only daughter, Clara. Rubens was married to Susanna's sister-in-law Isabella Brant, and it was probably through Rubens that Van Dyck received the commission for this portrait..