Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)
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- Fame63.1
- Momentum0.9
- Artists rank#109
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Lived 1390–1441, aged 51
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He turned oil paint into a medium that could capture the exact way light falls on velvet, the wetness of an eye, the grain in a single floorboard — a technical leap so decisive that for centuries people thought he'd invented the paint itself.
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Born around 1390 in Maaseik, Limburg, van Eyck was already running a workshop by 1422 when he entered service in The Hague as painter and valet de chambre to John III the Pitiless. After John's death in 1425, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, appointed him court painter and valued him enough to send him on diplomatic missions, including a 1428 trip to Lisbon to negotiate Philip's marriage to Isabella of Portugal. Van Eyck moved to Bruges in 1429 and spent his final decade there, paid well and told to paint "whenever he pleased." About twenty paintings survive, plus the Ghent Altarpiece and il…
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