Hubert jan van eyck biography and paintings
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Hubert van Eyck
Early Netherlandish painter (c. 1385 – 1426)
In this Dutch name, the surname is van Eyck, not Eyck.
Hubert[a] van Eyck (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈɦybərtfɑnˈɛik]; c. 1385/90 – 18 September 1426) was an Early Netherlandish painter and older brother of Jan van Eyck,[b] as well as Lambert and Margareta, also painters. The absence of any single work that he can clearly be said to have completed continues to make an assessment of his achievement highly uncertain, although for centuries he had the reputation of being an outstanding founding artist of Early Netherlandish painting.[1]
Life and career
[edit]He was probably born in Maaseik, in what is now the Belgian province of Limburg, into a family in the gentry.
As the name was not a very common one, he is probably the "Magister Hubertus, Pictor" recorded as having been paid in 1409 for panels in the church of Onze Lieve Vrouwe, Tongeren. He is probably also Master
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Jan van Eyck is the most famous member of a family of painters traditionally believed to have originated from the town of Maaseik, in the diocese of Liège. The work of the Van Eycks, epitomized in the Ghent Altarpiece, brought an unprecedented realism to the themes and figures of late medieval art.
Van Eyck pursued a career at two courts, working for John of Bavaria, count of Hainaut-Holland (1422–24), and then securing a prestigious appointment with Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy (1425–41). Employment at court secured him a high social standing unusual for a painter, as well as artistic independence from the painters’ guild of Bruges, where he had settled by 1431. Evidence that the Van Eycks bore a coat-of-arms, and thus belonged to the gentry, and that Jan was literate (as shown by his own handwriting on a drawing), is consistent with the probability that some of his frequent travels for the duke were diplomatic missions. Many aspects of his work were surely intended to promot
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Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter (died 1441)
In this Dutch name, the surname is van Eyck, not Eyck.
Jan van Eyck | |
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Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) bygd Jan van Eyck, 1433. National galleri, London | |
| Born | Sometime around 1380 or 1390 Maaseik, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Holy långnovell Empire |
| Died | 9 July 1441 Bruges, County of Flanders, Burgundian Netherlands |
| Nationality | Flemish |
| Education | Robert Campin (disputed) |
| Known for | painting |
| Movement | Early Netherlandish painting, Northern Renaissance |
| Patron(s) | John III, Duke of Bavaria, later Philip the Good |
Jan van Eyck (van EYEK; Dutch:[ˈjɑɱvɑnˈɛik]; c. before 1390 – 9 July 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art. According to Vasari and other art historians including Ernst Gombrich, he invented