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Jan Van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.
Jan Van Eyck (and his brother Hubert) were among the earliest Early Netherlandish painters to use oil for very detailed panel paintings. Jan achieved new and remarkable effects through the use of glazes, wet-on-wet and other techniques. Thus, because of his early mastery of the technique, he was traditionally known as the “father of oil painting.”
In the most substantial early source on him, a 1454 biography by the Genoese humanist Bartolomeo Facio (De viris illustribus), Jan van Eyck was named “the leading painter” of his day. Facio places him among the best artists of the early 15th century, along with Rogier van der Weyden, Gentile da Fabriano, and Pisanello. Jan van Eyck died in Bruges in 1441.
His most famous masterpiece:
The Arnolfini-Portait (1434)
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