Daniel van den Dyck the influence of Rubens in its sensuality and that of Anthony van Dyck in the livid tonality and the smooth and thin application of the paint. He is known to have created more altarpieces as well as portraits during his stay in Venice. Marco Boschini mentions in his "Le ricche minere della pittura veneziana" of 1674 a "Portrait of three lawyers" including Giovan Francesco Loredano (still alive) by van den Dyck as being kept at the Doge's Palace in Venice. Van den Dyck is also believed to have painted the frescos on the subject of Psyche in the "Villa Venier
Anthony van Dyck portrait tradition—of painters such as William Dobson, Robert Walker and Isaac Fuller—into what certainly became elegant blandness in the hands of many of van Dyck's successors, like Lely or Kneller. The conventional view has always been more favourable: "When Van Dyck came hither he brought Face-Painting to us; ever since which time ... England has excel'd all the World in that great Branch of the Art’ (Jonathan Richardson: "An Essay on the Theory of Painting", 1715, 41). Thomas Gainsborough is reported to have said on his deathbed "We are all going to heaven, and Van Dyck is of the Company."