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”.