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Master of Wavrin
( fl ?Lille, c. 1450–75). Illuminator, active in the southern Netherlands. He is named after Jean de Wavrin, Lord of Forestel (d c. 1475), a military officer and compiler of chronicles, for whom he illuminated a number of manuscripts; many of these bear the Wavrin coat of arms and signature. The works to which the Master of Wavrin contributed are almost all chivalric romances, generally elaborately illustrated with numerous miniatures. The Roman de Florimont (Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 12566), for example, includes 105 miniatures. Others with extensive cycles are the Histoire des seigneurs de Gavre, the Roman de Girart de Nevers (Brussels, Bib. Royale Albert 1er, MSS 10238 and 9631), the Histoire d’Oliviers de Castille (Ghent, Bib. Rijksuniv., MS. 470) and the Chatelain de Couchy (Lille, Bib. Mun., Fond. Godefroy, MS. 134).
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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