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EYCK, Jan van Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1395-1441
Painter and illuminator, brother of Hubert van Eyck. According to a 16th-century Ghent tradition, represented by van Vaernewijck and Lucas d'Heere, Jan trained with his brother Hubert. Pietro Summonte's assertion (1524) that he began work as an illuminator is supported by the fine technique and small scale of most of Jan's works, by manuscript precedents for certain of his motifs, and by his payment in 1439 for initials in a book (untraced) for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Jan is first documented in The Hague in August 1422 as an established artist with an assistant and the title of 'Master', working for John III, Count of Holland (John of Bavaria; reg 1419-25), who evidently discovered the artist while he was bishop (1389-1417) of the principality of Liege.
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Painting ID:: 6612 St Barbara dg
1437
Grisaille on wood, 31 x 18 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
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Painting ID:: 6613 Portrait of Margareta van Eyck sdf
1439
Oil on wood, 32,6 x 25,8 cm
Groeninge Museum, Bruges
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Painting ID:: 6614 Madonna and Child at the Fountain ere
1439
Oil on wood, 19 x 12 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
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Painting ID:: 6615 Portrait of Christ sdr
1440
Oak panel, 33,4 x 26,8 cm
Groeninge Museum, Bruges
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Painting ID:: 6616 Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife df
1434
Oil on oak, 82 x 60 cm
National Gallery, London
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EYCK, Jan van
Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1395-1441
Painter and illuminator, brother of Hubert van Eyck. According to a 16th-century Ghent tradition, represented by van Vaernewijck and Lucas d'Heere, Jan trained with his brother Hubert. Pietro Summonte's assertion (1524) that he began work as an illuminator is supported by the fine technique and small scale of most of Jan's works, by manuscript precedents for certain of his motifs, and by his payment in 1439 for initials in a book (untraced) for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Jan is first documented in The Hague in August 1422 as an established artist with an assistant and the title of 'Master', working for John III, Count of Holland (John of Bavaria; reg 1419-25), who evidently discovered the artist while he was bishop (1389-1417) of the principality of Liege.
. Related Artists to EYCK, Jan van: | Ludovico Carracci | Anna Waser | Konrad Alexander Muller-Kurzwelly | David de Coninck | william holman hunt,o.m.,r.w.s |
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