Rogier van der Weyden and workshop

Rogier van der Weyden and workshop is the credit museums give to a picture that Rogier designed and partly painted himself in Brussels, while assistants in his studio carried out the rest. It sits between a work by Rogier alone and one labelled workshop of Rogier, where his own hand is not found at all.

Nobody wrote down the names of the assistants who worked beside him in the late 1430s, and specialists separate their shares only by close looking, at heads painted in different techniques or figures that do not quite match in scale. One painting under this name is The Exhumation of Saint Hubert in the National Gallery in London, made for a chapel in the Brussels church of Saint Gudula, today the city's cathedral.

The workshop outlived its founder. When Rogier died in 1464 his son Pieter, also a painter, took over the family houses in Brussels and presumably the studio with them, though no painting can be given to Pieter with certainty. Pieter's own son Goswin probably trained there as well, and later carried the family manner to the Flemish towns of Lier and Antwerp.