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Lieven van Lathem [Laethem]

( fl 1454; d Antwerp, before 14 March 1493). South Netherlandish illuminator. He became a master of the Ghent painters’ guild on 30 October 1454. Between 1457 and 1459 he was in the service of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. In 1462 he enrolled in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke, to which he belonged until his death. He was also active for short periods outside Antwerp: in 1468, for example, he contributed to extensive preparations in Bruges for the assembly of the Order of the Golden Fleece and for the marriage of Charles the Bold to Margaret of York.

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