Anthony van Dyck Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy Antwerp silk merchant, Anthony was precocious as a youth and painted from an early age. In his late teens he was already enjoying success as an independent painter, becoming a master in the Antwerp guild in 1618. By this time he was working in the studio of the leading northern painter of
Christopher H. van Dyck International Correspondence Chess Master, winning the 1979 Absolute. His games from this tournament have been published, including in Alex Dunne’s Modern Postal Masterpieces. Christopher H. van Dyck Christopher H. van Dyck (born 25 August 1955 in Wichita, Kansas, is the Founder and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit (ADRU) at Yale University School of Medicine, where he is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience. His research uses brain imaging to learn about the progression of pathology in Alzheimer's disease, and to test potential new treatments for this disease. Christopher Hans van Dyck was born to Barbara Kroll Dyck and