Behind, you can see the Cathedrals of Utrecht and Cologne, St.John's of Maestricht, and more churches and houses besides, and the walls of a town, and wide stretches of green country.
[Footnote 1: There are reasons for thinking that the picture may have been ordered by some prince who died before it was finished, and that Vyt only acquired it later, in time to have his own and his wife's portraits added on the shutters.] Hubert van Eyck died in 1426, and the picture was finished by his younger brother John, of whose life, though more is known than of Hubert's, we need not here repeat details.

Many of his pictures still exist, and the most delightful of them for us are his portraits.

He was not the first man to paint good portraits, but few artists have ever painted better likenesses.

It seems evident that the people in his pictures are 'as like as they can stare,' with no wrinkle or scratch left out.

Portraits in earlier days than these were seldom painted for their own sake alone.