11 Facts About Robert Campin

Robert Campin was active by 1406 as a master painter in Tournai, in today's Belgium, and became that city's leading painter for 30 years.

Robert Campin's fame had spread enough by 1419 that he led a large and profitable workshop.

Robert Campin became involved in the revolt of the Brotherhoods in the early 1420s; this, along with an extra-marital affair with a woman named Leurence Pol, led to his imprisonment.

Robert Campin was successful in his lifetime, and the recipient of a number of civic commissions.

Robert Campin taught both Rogier van der Weyden and Jacques Daret.

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Robert Campin owned several houses, purchased city bonds and invested in mortgages.

Robert Campin was ordered to make a pilgrimage to Saint-Gilles and pay the fine.

Robert Campin had an affair with Laurence Polette, for which he was prosecuted in 1432 and sentenced to banishment for a year.

Robert Campin was one of the first to experiment with the use of oil-based colours, in lieu of egg-based tempera, to achieve the brilliance of color typical for this period.

Robert Campin used the new technique to convey strong, rounded characters by modelling light and shade in compositions of complex perspectives.

Robert Campin's is depicted in a well-kept middle-class Flemish home.