Robert Campin

Robert Campin

Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Campin has received more than 295,623 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Robert Campin is the 144th most popular painter (down from 137th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from France (down from 404th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Painter.

Robert Campin is most famous for his work on the "Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria" in 1425.