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Winter 1631-1632: Works in The Hague at the court of Frederick Hendrick and Amalia van Solms, Prince and Princess of Orange.   1632: Arrives in London; soon knighted and made “principalle Paynter in ordinary to their Majesties”; takes up residence in Blackfriars, and in summer stays at Eitham Palace in Kent.   Winter 1634: Makes a journey from London to Flanders.   18 October 1634: Van Dyck is elected honorary dean of Antwerp’s Guild of St Luke.   Spring 1635: Again in London.   1639: Marries Mary Ruthven, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria.   October – November 1640 (?): In Paris he tries unsuccessfully to procure the commission for the decoration of the Grande Galérie in the Louvre; returns to London.   October 1641: In Antwerp.   1 December 1641: Birth of his daughter Justiniana.   9 December 1641: Van Dyck dies in Blackfriars.   11 December 1641: Buried in the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral in London (his tomb was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666).

May 1630: Van Dyck calls himself “painter to Her Highness” [“schilder van Heure Hoocheyd”, i.e. the Infanta Isabel]; however, he continues to live in Antwerp and does not move to Brussels, where the Infanta has her residence.   4 September – 16 October 1630: The French Queen Maria de Medici visits Van Dyck’s studio during her stay in Antwerp.

October – November 1621: Arrives in Genoa and takes up residence in the house of Cornelis and Lucas de Wael.   February – August 1622: Works on portraits in Rome.   October 1622 – January 1623: Accompanies the Countess of Arundel to Turin, Milan, and Mantua.   1 December 1622: Van Dyck’s father dies in Antwerp.   March 1623 – July 1625: Travels and lives throughout Rome, Genoa, and Palermo.   July 1625: Journeys to Marseilles and Aix-en-Provence, where he meets Rubens’ correspondent Peiresc, whose portrait can be found in Van Dyck’s Iconography.   Autumn 1627 (?): Returns to Antwerp, where his sister Cornelia dies.   September 1628: Joins the Jesuit Confraternity of Bachelors, “Soldaliteit van de bejaerde Jongmans”.

25 November 1620: Toby Matthew writes in a letter to Sir Dudley Carleton, an English diplomat and well-known collector, that King James I has granted Van Dyck an annual stipend of £100.   28 February 1621: Receives a passport and permission, signed by the Earl of Arundel, to take an eight-month leave of absence; returns to Antwerp.

Biography     2 March 1599: Birth of Anthony van Dyck, seventh child, into the family of the rich cloth merchant Frans van Dyck and his wife, Maria Cuypers.   17 April 1607: Death of Van Dyck’s mother.   October 1609: Enrolls in the Guild of St Luke as the apprentice of Hendrick van Balen.   11 February 1618: Is registered as a Master of the Guild of St Luke.   29 March 1620: -In a contract drawn up between Rubens and the Antwerp Jesuits for the creation of 39 ceiling paintings for the new Church of the Order, of all Rubens’ assistants only Van Dyck is mentioned by name.   October 1620: Thomas Locke writes from London to William Trumbull, an English resident in Brussels, about Van Dyck’s arrival in the English capital.