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Robert Campin
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Dutch painter, first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting, 1375–1444 (1375–1444)
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Robert Campin was a male painter and architectural draftsperson from the Southern Netherlands. Born in Valenciennes in 1375, he worked primarily in Tournai, where he died in 1444. His native language was Dutch, and he practiced Early Netherlandish painting. His work encompasses religious painting, religious art, portrait, and history painting.
Among his notable works are the Werl Triptych and Nativity. He had one known student, Rogier van der Weyden. Thirty-six of his works are recorded. His art is held in the collections of the Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and National Gallery of Art.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Southern Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Valenciennes
- Place of death
- Tournai
- Occupation
- architectural draftsperson
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
- Notable work
- Nativity
- Field of work
- Early Netherlandish painting
- Genre
- history painting
- Movement
- Early Netherlandish painting
- Work location
- Tournai
- Said to be same as
- Master of Flémalle
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- date of birth
- 1375-01-01
- date of death
- 1444-04-26
- topic's main category
- Category:Robert Campin
- Commons category
- Robert Campin
- Commons Creator page
- Robert Campin
- student
- Rogier van der Weyden
- Commons gallery
- Robert Campin
- has works in the collection
- Wallraf–Richartz Museum
- described at URL
- artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F01t769
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Robert Campin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Bildnis eines Mannes
Die Verkündigung
Man of Sorrows
Die Verkündigung
Mary with the Child
Saint Barbara
Praying Christ
Seated Madonna
Anbetung der Könige
Portrait of a Woman
Holy Trinity
Bildnis des Robert de Masmines
Geburt Christi
The Virgin with the Donor
Madonna at the lawn bank
The Birth of Christ
Marriage of Mary
Szenen aus dem Leben des heiligen Joseph
John the Baptist and the Franciscan Heinrich von Werl
Mérode-Triptychon
Christ on the Cross
Jaël und Sisera
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Campin (Valenciennes (France) c. 1375 - Tournai (Belgium) 26 April 1444) now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was a master painter who, along with Jan van Eyck, initiated the development of early Netherlandish painting, a key development in the early Northern Renaissance.
While the existence of a highly successful painter called Robert Campin is relatively well documented for the period, no works can be certainly identified as by him through a signature or contemporary documentation. A group of paintings, none dated, have been long attributed to him, and a further group were once attributed to an unknown "Master of Flémalle". It is now usually thought that both groupings are by Campin, but this has been a matter of some controversy for decades.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Campin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.