Robert Campin

Robert Campin was the leading painter of Tournai for some thirty years and is now usually identified with the anonymous Master of Flémalle. With Jan van Eyck he founded early Netherlandish painting, bringing an earthy, closely observed realism to religious scenes set in ordinary Flemish rooms. Rogier van der Weyden trained in his workshop. Works given to him include the Mérode Altarpiece in New York, and the National Gallery in London has his Virgin and Child before a Firescreen and a pair of portraits of a man and a woman, while the Courtauld holds the Seilern Triptych.