Van Dyck

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”.