Robert Campin, also called the Master of Flémalle, ca. (1375–1444),

was the first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting. Campin's identity and the attribution of the paintings in both the "Campin" and "Master of Flémalle" groupings have been a matter of controversy for decades. Campin was married to Ysabel de Stocquain. The couple was childless. He had an affair with Laurence Polette, for which he was prosecuted in 1432 and sentenced to banishment for a year. Margaret of Burgundy, wife of the Count of Holland and sister of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy intervened on his behalf, and this was reduced to a fine. Campin's apprentices Rogier van der Weyden and Jacques Daret were accepted as masters into the guild of painters. The displayed painting is a crop from: A Man and a Woman, c.(1435).