Robert Campin
Dutch painter, first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting, 1375–1444 (1375–1444)
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He painted the first Northern Renaissance masterpieces—except no one's entirely sure which ones. Robert Campin launched early Netherlandish painting alongside Jan van Eyck, but left behind no signatures, turning art history into a centuries-long detective story.
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Campin worked as a master painter in Tournai from 1406, leading the city's most profitable workshop by 1419. He taught Rogier van der Weyden and Jacques Daret, pioneered the realistic use of oil paint beyond anything the International Gothic artists had managed, and met Jan van Eyck in 1427. An extramarital affair with Leurence Pol landed him in prison, but he kept his workshop and civic standing. He died in Tournai on 26 April 1444, leaving behind paintings like the Mérode Altarpiece that scholars only later grouped under his name—and under the invented "Master of Flémalle," a label born from…
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