Jan van Eyck Prints
c. 1390–1441 · Flemish · Early Netherlandish painting
Wall art by Jan van Eyck, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
12 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck was born around 1390, probably at Maaseik in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, and is first documented in the early 1420s as painter to John of Bavaria at The Hague. In 1425 he entered the service of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, as painter and valet de chambre, travelled to Portugal in 1428 to 1429 to paint the duke's prospective bride, and settled in Bruges in 1429, where he worked until his death in 1441. The Ghent Altarpiece, completed in 1432 with his brother Hubert, is the largest surviving work, and The Arnolfini Portrait of 1434, now in the National Gallery in London, the most famous: a double portrait in a Bruges interior with the inscription Johannes de eyck fuit hic on the back wall. Van Eyck did not invent oil painting, as was long claimed, but he pushed it further than anyone before him, building images from thin translucent layers so that fur, brass, glass and the light on each were rendered with a precision that still astonishes. That density of observation is why his pictures reward a large print: there is more to see than any single viewing can exhaust.