bellgambe

Updated: June 5, 2025

This was also the birthplace of Jean Bellgambe, the painter surnamed "Maître des Couleurs," whose nine great oaken panels form the wonderful altarpiece in the church of Notre Dame. Douai was, before the great war, a peaceful industrial center of some importance, of some thirty thousand inhabitants. It has been said that the Fleming worked habitually fifty-two weeks in the year.

George Wharton Edwards - Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders