Margaret van Eyck, a House called ‘the Wild Sea’ and Jan van Eyck’s posthumous Workshop
Jones, Susan Frances, Dumolyn, Jan, Leloup, Ward, De Meester, Toon and Speecke, Mathijs (2022) Margaret van Eyck, a House called ‘the Wild Sea’ and Jan van Eyck’s posthumous Workshop. The Burlington Magazine, 164 (1427). pp. 120-129.
Abstract
Understanding of the transition in painting in Bruges between the death of Jan van Eyck in 1441 and the early career of Petrus Christus has been hampered by uncertainty about the size, location and fate of Van Eyck's workshop, which some scholars argue was continued by his widow, Margaret. Reassessment of the evidence suggests a new terminus ante quem for its closure. A Margaret sHeex (Margaret van Eyck) who owned a house in Bruges, and who was still living in Bruges in 1456, was evidently misidentified by the nineteenth-century scholar W.H. James Weale as Van Eyck’s wife Margaret. Instead, Van Eyck’s wife probably died before 1450/51, and the Van Eyck family probably owned only one house in Bruges, which was the location of Van Eyck’s workshop. That house changed hands in spring 1444, providing a new terminus ante quem for the workshop’s closure and for the liquidation of the unfinished stock.
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