The journalist and art historian Nick Trend chooses a striking Jan van Eyck portrait that may — or may not — be an image of the great man himself.
Nick Trend on ‘Portrait of a Man’ by Jan van Eyck
‘It was that strangely charismatic steely-eyed stare that caught my attention when I first spotted this picture in the National Gallery. Plus, of course, the colour drama of the turban, and the astonishing realism of the sitter’s face — the stubble around…
