Hijo de un comerciante textil de Amberes, Van Dyck fue aprendiz a los diez años y, a finales de su adolescencia, ya trabajaba en el taller de Peter Paul Rubens, quien lo llamó su «mejor alumno». Ya era maestro independiente en 1618, y una estancia de estudio en Italia perfeccionó el estilo de retrato elegante y fluido que más tarde llevaría a Inglaterra.
En 1632, Carlos I lo invitó a Londres, lo nombró pintor de corte principal y lo armó caballero, dándole unos ingresos considerables y una casa junto al Támesis. Van Dyck pasó allí la mayor parte del resto de su carrera, produciendo los retratos grandiosos y de aparente naturalidad de la aristocracia inglesa que los retratistas británicos posteriores pasarían un siglo imitando. Murió en Londres en 1641, a los 42 años, tras enfermar gravemente durante un viaje a París.
Cuadros de Van Dyck expuestos, museo por museo
El Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Charles I and the Knights of the Garter in Procession — Gallery 47 (1638)
- Head of a Man wearing a Falling Ruff — Gallery 44 (1628)
- Head of a bearded Man wearing a Wheel Ruff — Gallery 44 (1628)
- Portrait of Charles I — Gallery 2 (17th century (1601 - 1700))
- Portrait of Gertrudis Wiegers, full-length, seated and turned towards the left, holding a rose and with a pet dog at her feet — Gallery 44 (1618 - 1620)
- The Deposition — Gallery 46 (1619)
- Thomas Howard, Second Earl of Arundel — Gallery 2 (1635 - 1683)
La Pinacoteca de Brera, Milán
- Ritratto di dama — XXXI (1635)
El Cleveland Museum of Art
- A Genoese Lady with Her Child — 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture (c. 1623–25)
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Londres
- Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, Prince of Oneglia — Room 4 (1624)
- Samson and Delilah — Room 4 (c. 1618–20)
- The Madonna and Child — Room 4 (c. 1630–32)
- Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed — Room 10 (1633)
Museo Jacquemart-André
- Portrait d’homme — Bibliothèque (vers 1620)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edimburgo
- Alexander Henderson, c 1583 - 1646. Presbyterian divine and diplomatist — Portrait (On Display) (About 1641)
- Princess Elizabeth, 1635 - 1650 and Princess Anne, 1637 - 1640. Daughters of Charles I — Portrait (On Display) (1637)
- The Lomellini Family — National (On Display) (About 1625 - 1627)
La National Gallery, Londres
- Charity — Room 21 (About 1627-8)
- Equestrian Portrait of Charles I — Room 21 (About 1638–9)
- Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and her Sister — Room 21 (About 1635)
- Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart — Room 21 (About 1638)
- Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest — Room 21 (About 1620)
- Portrait of François Langlois — Room 21 (Probably early 1630s)
- Portrait of George Gage with Two Attendants — Room 21 (Probably 1621-2)
- Portrait of a Woman and Child — Room 21 (About 1620-1)
- Portrait of the Abbot Scaglia — Room 21 (1634)
- St Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral — Room 18 (About 1619-20)
- The Abbot Scaglia adoring the Virgin and Child — Room 21 (1634-5)
- The Giustiniani Longo Children (?) — Room 21 (1626-7)
- William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh — Room 21 (About 1633-4)
La National Portrait Gallery, Londres
- James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby — Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley (oil on canvas, feigned oval, based on a work of 1636-1637)
- King Charles I — Kensington Palace, London (oil on canvas, based on a work of 1635-1637)
- King Charles I — Banqueting House, London (oil on canvas, based on a work of 1635-1636)
- Lord George Stuart, 9th Seigneur of Aubigny — Room 4 (oil on canvas, circa 1638)
- Sir Anthony van Dyck — Room 4 (oil on canvas, circa 1640)
- Sir Edmund Verney — Room 6 (oil on canvas, circa 1640)
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford — Lyme Park, Stockport (oil on canvas, circa 1633, based on a work of circa 1633)
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford — Room 4 (oil on canvas, circa 1636)
- William Laud — Room 4 (oil on canvas, based on a work of 1636)
La Tate Britain, Londres
- A Lady of the Spencer Family — Exiles and Dynasties 1545-1640 (Room 1) (c.1633–8)
- Portrait of Sir William Killigrew — Exiles and Dynasties 1545-1640 (Room 1) (1638)
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
- Cristo en la Cruz — Sala A (1627)
Salas y estado de exposición verificados en la base de colecciones de cada museo.
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