It’s one typically associated with the 16th and 17th centuries: a dapper, inverted-triangle of a beard paired with a generous, military-type mo that twisted up elegantly at either end. King Charles I (who van Dyck painted several times) and William Shakespeare are among its most famous exponents.
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Barbering manuals of the turn of the century might describe this style as a ‘Van Dyck’, named after the Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) who is known to have adopted this look.
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