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Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400 – 1464)

• Was an Early Netherlandish painter.
• His surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits.
• He was highly successful and internationally famous in his lifetime.
• His paintings were exported – or taken – to Italy and Spain.
• He received commissions from, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility, and foreign princes.
• By the latter half of the 15th century, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity.
• Today he is known, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third of the three great Early Flemish artists (Vlaamse Primitieven or "Flemish Primitives"), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Portrait of a young Woman, c. 1440-45.
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