Early life of jan van eyck

Jan van Eyck (prior to 1390—9 July 1441) is the grandmaster most responsible for the Dutch Renaissance and the influence of his country’s art across the continent.

Professionally accomplished in his life, van Eyck was a painter who enjoyed aristocratic commissions and jobs as a political envoy.

His fame endured and grew after his death, so much so that the Italian biographer Giorgio Vasari believed, a century later, that van Eyck was the inventor of oil painting. He was thus being widely identified with the achievements of Dutch and Flemish art.

Jan van Eyck’s early life

Jan van Eyck — whose precise origin and date of birth have been approximated by historians through centuries of hypotheses — was a valet of the Dutch duke John of Bavaria between 1422 and 1424 with the function of a painter.

After the lord’s death in 1425, van Eyck found employment by the exceptionally powerful and munificent Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good. It is at thi