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ROGER VAN DER WEYDEN (c. 1400-1464)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 887 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROGER See also:VAN DER See also:WEYDEN (c. 1400-1464)  , Flemish painter, also known as See also:Roger de la Pasture, See also:Rogier de Bruxelles, &c., was See also:born at Tournay, where in 1427 he entered the studio of See also:Robert Campin . He established himself in See also:Brussels about 1435 . He was in See also:Italy in 1449-1450, but his visit shows no result on his See also:style, which owes nothing to See also:Italian See also:models; and he returned to Brussels, where he died on the 18th of See also:June 1464 . His vigorous, subtle and expressive See also:painting and popular religious conceptions had considerable See also:influence on the See also:art of See also:Flanders and See also:Germany . See also:Memlinc was his greatest See also:pupil; and his See also:place in the See also:early Flemish school is second only to that of the See also:Van Eycks . He was not a pupil of See also:Jan van See also:Eyck, as was at one See also:time supposed . His See also:principal paintings were: a " Descent from the See also:Cross " (1440), now in See also:Madrid, and another (1443) in the See also:church of St See also:Pierre at See also:Louvain; a See also:triptych (1438-144o), now in the See also:Berlin Museum; " Madonna with See also:Saints " (1450), at the Stadel See also:Institute, See also:Frankfort; a "Last See also:Judgment " (1451), in the See also:hospital of See also:Beaune, See also:France; the portraits of See also:Philip the See also:Good (See also:Antwerp Museum) and See also:Charles the Bold (Brussels Museum), painted about 1456–1458; the " See also:Altar-piece of St See also:John " and the triptych from See also:Middelburg (Berlin Museum); an " Entombment of See also:Christ " (See also:National See also:Gallery); a " Woman Crying " (Brussels Museum); " Descent from the Cross " (Louvre); " See also:Adoration of the Magi " (Old Pinakothek at See also:Munich); " Descent from the Cross " (the See also:Hague); " Seven Sacraments " (Antwerp Museum); " Descent from the Cross " (Brussels Museum) . Some of these latter, and others, are only doubtfully attributed to the See also:master . The " Crucifixion " in the Brussels Museum, assigned either to him or to Memlinc, and containing portraits of the Sforzas, probably represents Roger van der See also:Weyden in some of the principal figures at least, though Memlinc may have completed the picture . There was a younger Roger van der Weyden (c . 1450–1529), to whom a brilliant " See also:Mary Magdalen " in the National Gallery is attributed . There are Lives of the See also:elder Van der Weyden by A .

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Wauters (1856) and Alex . Pinchart (1876) .

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