Jan van Eyck - Portrait of the artist
The man who was once said to have “invented oil painting”.
Jan van Eyck is one of western arts earliest true realist painters - and, to this day, remains one of the most famous old masters.
Sadly, almost nothing is known about Jan’s early life or just how he learnt to paint with such astonishi…
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