Brief Biography-It is uncertain where Robert Campin was born, but he worked in Tournai from 1406. He became a citizen of Tournai in 1410. In 1428, being married to Elisabeth de Stochem, he received fines for an extramarital affair. In 1432, the court expelled him from Tournai for a year due to a licentious lifestyle. The countess Hainault, Jacqueline of Bavaria, later got him off with a fine. Three paintings in Frankfurt that were assumed to have come from Flémalle close to Liège earned him the title Master of Flémalle after being attributed to him. There is evidence Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden influenced him. Van Eyck’s influence is seen particularly in the mirror of the left-hand panel of the Werl altarpiece. Van der Weyden, known as Roger de la Pasture, and Jacques Daret were his pupils in Tournai. His most famous work is the Mérode Altarpiece, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Most of Campin’s paintings are attributed to him as he never signed any of his works.