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).