van Eyck

British

/ væn ˈaɪk /

noun

Jan (jɑn). died 1441, Flemish painter; founder of the Flemish school of painting. His most famous work is the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb, in Ghent, in which he may have been assisted by his brother Hubert (ˈhyːbərt), died ?1426

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Dylan van Eyck added 16 points, five assists and five steals and Elijah Joiner scored 13.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2021

Pat Adams is something like the Jan van Eyck of postwar American abstraction.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

It’s incredible how much van Eyck packed in and how lifelike he made it, with his painstaking technique of layering tinted glazes over a colored ground.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2020

There are only around 20 extant works by Jan van Eyck, over half of which will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2019

A story is told of how Hubert van Eyck painted a picture upon which he had lavished his usual painstaking care.

From The Book of Art for Young People by Conway, Agnes Ethel

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