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OCR: LIFE of Holland. He served as court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, from 1425, and worked in Bruges from 1430. Philip the Good valued him not only as a painter but also as a diplomatic representative, sending him to Spain and Portugal in 1427 and 1428, and he remained in the duke's employ after he settled in Bruges. Oil painting allowed for subtler effects of tone and color and greater command of detail than Eyck the egg-tempera technique then in common use, and van Eyck took full advantage of this.