Anthony van Dyck died today in 1641. He was court painter to Charles I and his portraits are to die for, especially his use of light on silks and satins. As we've noted before in these pages, he was the only one of the van Dyck family not to appear in Diagnosis Murder.
In other news ...
Clarence Birdseye was born today in 1886. I am going to resist any unpleasant jokes about cryogenics and just say how much I love Clarence Fish Fingers.
