[Hubert van Eyck]Huberto ab Eyck, Joannis Fratri; Pictori. Quas modo communes cum fratre Huberte, merenti / Attribuit laudes nostra Thalia tibi [...] 1.
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Hubert van Eyck (b.c.1358-90, d.1426), painter and brother of Jan van Eyck. According to the inscription on the famous Ghent altarpiece, that great work was begun by Hubert and completed by Jan. Other work by Hubert is hard to identify. Third state of a plate engraved in 1572 after an unidentified portrait by Michiel Coxie I. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43314] £140.00
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Hubert van Eyck (b.c.1358-90, d.1426), painter and brother of Jan van Eyck. According to the inscription on the famous Ghent altarpiece, that great work was begun by Hubert and completed by Jan. Other work by Hubert is hard to identify. Third state of a plate engraved in 1572 after an unidentified portrait by Michiel Coxie I. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43314] £140.00