WordNet
n. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441) [syn: Eyck, Jan van Eyck]
Wikipedia
Van Eyck or Van Eijk is a Dutch toponymic surname. Eijck/Eyck or Eijk are archaic spellings of modern Dutch eik ("oak") and the surname translates as "of the oak tree". People with this surname include:
Usage examples of "van eyck".
If I had the least feeling that this thing in The Hague was a genuine Hubertus van Eyck I would be on my knees before it, but the chances are ten thousand to one that it's a fake, and the fake must be exposed.
That's to say, I met him in The Hague when he made that astonishing judgement on a fake Van Eyck.
There was one in particular outside her room by Jan van Eyck, of a dark-haired man and his wife.
Around him, period weapons, heraldic coats-of-arms, and the canvases of great Dutch and Flemish painterseveryone from Jan van Eyck to Peter Brueghelhung from the dark, paneled walls.