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| | Jan van Eyck |
 | | His name, spelt variously as Ubert, Lubert and Hubert, appears briefly four times in the city archives on the Ghent altarpiece: "The painter Hubert van Eyck, than whom no greater has been found... |
 | | He was born somewhere around 1390 in the village of Maaseyck near Maastricht. |
 | | Between 1422 and 1424, he was employed as a painter by John of Bavaria, Bishop of Liège; the next year, 1425, his famous relationship with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, began. |
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