Van Dyke beard Van Dyke beard A Van Dyke (sometimes spelled Vandyke, or Van Dyck) is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). A Van Dyke specifically consists of any growth of both a moustache and goatee with all hair on the cheeks shaven. Even this particular style, though, has many variants, including a curled moustache versus a non-curled one and a soul patch versus none. The style is sometimes called a "Charlie" after King Charles I of England, who was painted with this type of beard by van Dyck. "Pike-devant" or "pickedevant" are other
Henry Van Dyke (novelist) Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971 and, in 1974, a Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died of heart failure on December 22, 2011, at the Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home, to which he had recently moved when he felt he was failing and nearing the end. Henry Van Dyke (novelist) Henry L. Van Dyke, Jr. (1928 – December 22, 2011), was an American novelist, editor, teacher and musician. Henry Van Dyke was born in Allegan, Michigan, to an academic family. He spent his childhood in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father taught at Alabama State Teachers