Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter, one of the first artists to explore oil paint and one of the first to use the 3/4 pose.
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- AlC IXH XAN (Als Ich Kan)
- I do as I can
- The inscription on the frame of Man in the Red Turban. These are the first words of a proverb which translates to the English phrase "I do as I can, but not as I would."