eyks

Updated: February 11, 2026

It would seem that he had revolted with such fury from the meagre, pale, cadaverous outlines of womankind painted by his predecessors, the Van Eyks, whose women resembled potato sprouts grown in a cellar, that he altogether overdid the matter in the opposite direction.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2