Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Flemish School

A school of painting established by the brothers Van Eyck, in the fifteenth century. The chief early masters were Memling, Weyden, Matsys, Mabus, and Moro. Of the second period, Rubens and Vandyck, Snyders, Jordaens, Gaspar de Crayer, and the younger Teniers.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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