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.