1. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441); [syn: Eyck, van Eyck, Jan van Eyck]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Jan van Eyck
n 1: Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of
painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil
painting (1390-1441) [syn: Eyck, van Eyck, Jan van
Eyck]