page_title: Jean Baptiste van Eycken
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Baptiste van Eycken / Works
caption_attribution_description: The Letter of Introduction
context_page_description: Jean Baptiste van Eycken was a Belgian historical and religious painter.
context_section_description: Two of his most important pictures were those representing Captive Christians and St. Boniface, for the Église de la Chapelle; but for the same building he carried out no less than fourteen pictures representing the Passion of Christ and these were exhibited in 1847 and gained for him the Order of Leopold. His best-known picture perhaps is entitled Abundance, a replica of which the artist was employed to make for Prince Albert, according to the instructions of the queen of the Belgians, Marie-Louise. He was intensely interested in the subject of mural decoration, and studied every variety of it very closely, preparing a long essay on the subject and a series of paintings representing the Beatitudes, in order to exemplify his ideas in this direction. He also gave some attention to sculpture and to designing medallions.
caption: The Letter of Introduction, oil on canvas
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