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Eyck (JAN VAN a Flemish painter)

JAN VAN, a Flemish painter, brother of HUBERT; born in Maaseyck, about 1386. He was court painter of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and practiced his art chiefly at Bruges. In the National Gallery, London, there are three pictures of Jan van Eyck. These are portraits of Jean Arnolfini and Jeanne de Chenany, his wife signed and dated 1434; the portrait of a man in a cloak and fur collar, with a red handkerchief twisted round the head as a turban-painted Oct. 21, 1433; and the portrait of a man with a dark-red dress and a green head-covering-signed and dated Oct. 10, 1432. In the Louvre is his exquisitely finished little picture of "Chancellor Rollin kneeling before the Virgin." Jan died in Bruges, July 9, 1440, and lies buried in St. Donatus Church.