What "Flemish Primitive" painter and disciple of Robert Campin, was actually a Walloon painter, but changed his name into a Flemish one when he became "city-painter" of the then Dutch-speaking medieval town of Brussels?

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Rogier van der Weyden (Dutch pronunciation: [ʀoˈʝiːʀ vɑndəʀˈβ̞ɛˑɪ̯dən]) or Rogier de le Pasture (1399 or 1400 – June 18, 1464) was an Early Netherlandish painter.... From a document it is known that the city council of Tournai offered wine in honour of a certain 'Maistre Rogier de le Pasture' on March the 17th 1427. However, on the 5th of March of the following year the records of the painters' guild show a certain 'Rogelet de le Pasture' entered the workshop of Robert Campin together with Jacques Daret. Only five years later, on the first of August 1432, Rogier de le Pasture obtains the title of 'Master' (Maistre) as a painter.... The last mention of Rogier de la Pasture in the financial records of Tournai, on October 21, 1435, lists him as demeurrant à Brouxielles ('living in Brussels'). At the same time, the first mention of Rogier de Weyden is made as the official painter of Brussels. Therefore Rogier de la Pasture and Rogier Van der Weyden are thought to be one and the same painter. The post of city painter was created especially for Van der Weyden and was meant to lapse on his death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogier_van_der_Weyden Aug 12 10, 10:58 PM