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Eyck (HUBERT VAN ik a noted Flemish)

HUBERT VAN (ik), a noted Flemish painter; born in Maaseyck, near Liège, Belgium, in 1366. It has been claimed that he and his brother JAN were the inventors of oil painting. For transparent and brilliant coloring and minute finish their works have never been surpassed. Their masterpieces are for the most part in Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, Berlin, Munich, and Paris. The only painting that can now certainly be assigned to Hubert is the altar-piece with folding doors, "The Adoration of the Lamb," begun by him and finished by Jan, and afterward presented to the Cathedral of St. Bavon, Ghent, where only the two central divisions now remain, the wings being in the Gallery at Berlin, with the exception of those representing Adam and Eve, which are in the Brussels Museum. Hubert died in Ghent, Flanders, Sept. 18, 1426.