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their marriage. Because Portugal was ridden with plague, their court was itinerant and the Dutch party met them at the out-of-the-way castle of Avis. Van Eyck spent nine months there, returning to the Netherlands with Isabella as a bride to be; the couple married on Christmas Day of 1429. It would have been a challenging task in that Van Eyck would have to be honest as to Isabella's appearance, whilst also pleasing the model herself. Typically he showed his sitters as

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