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The Arnolfini Portrait: The Mirror, the Signature and an Unsolved Identity
Jan van Eyck signed the wall, painted two tiny visitors into a mirror and left a question that is still open: who are the man and woman in the room?
Jan van Eyck
c. 1395–1441
Flemish painter (before 1395–1441), court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and one of the great masters of oil painting. He is known for the Ghent Altarpiece and the Arnolfini Portrait.
Van Eyck was born before 1395, probably in Maaseik. By 1422 he was working for John of Bavaria in The Hague, and from 1425 he was painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.1
The Ghent Altarpiece, begun with his brother Hubert, was completed in 1432. He died in Bruges before 9 July 1441.1
Sources
- 1Jan van Eyck: summary. Encyclopaedia Britannica
