Lieven van Lathem (1430–1493), was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator.

Career

He was born in

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Lieven van Lathem worked for a range of patrons including the dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good, and Charles the Bold. A member of the painters' guilds in Ghent and Antwerp, van Lathem worked with other contemporary Flemish illuminators, including the Master of Mary of Burgundy and Nicolas Spierinc''.'' He was influenced by the Netherlandish panel painters Jan van Eyck and Dieric Bouts. Like many artists working at fifteenth-century courts, van Lathem worked in more than one medium. He helped prepare decorations for an assembly of the Order of the Golden Fleece and for the wedding festivities celebrating the marriage of

Charles the Bold Charles I (Charles Martin; german: Karl Martin; nl, Karel Maarten; 10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), nicknamed the Bold (German: ''der Kühne''; Dutch: ''de Stoute''; french: le Téméraire), was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. ...

Margaret of York Margaret of York (3 May 1446 – 23 November 1503)—also by marriage known as Margaret of Burgundy—was Duchess of Burgundy as the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the Burgundian State after his death. She was a daugh ...

held in Bruges in 1468. He contributed to the

Hours of Mary of Burgundy The Hours of Mary of Burgundy (german: Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund)Inglis, I is a book of hours, a form of devotional book for lay-people, completed in Flanders around 1477, and now in the National Library of Austria. It was probably com ...

. Though van Lathem is known for oil paintings as well as manuscripts, no paintings are currently attributed to him. His son Jacob van Lathem became a painter and his son Lieven the Younger became a goldsmith. Lieven van Lathem died in Antwerp in 1493. Around the year 1515, an Italian banker in Bruges, Jerome Frescobaldi, loaned money to

Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy Archduchess Margaret of Austria (german: Margarete; french: Marguerite; nl, Margaretha; es, Margarita; 10 January 1480 – 1 December 1530) was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 to 1530. She was the firs ...

, Governor of the Netherlands, on an inventory of some of her jewelled tableware. The pieces were weighed and valued by the goldsmith Lieven van Lathem, the son of the painter.'Choix de documents relatifs à l'histoire de l'Art, conservés aux Archives départementales du Nord', ''Revue de Nord'', 92 (Lille, 1937), pp. 269-274
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1430 births 1493 deaths Early Netherlandish painters Artists from Ghent {{Flemish-painter-stub