Loyset liedet biography of william hill

Biography

Flemish manuscript illuminator, active first in Hesdin and then in Bruges, where he became a guild member in 1469.

In all probability he continued to work in Bruges until 1479. He sometimes worked in grisaille, but his mature style featured bright, almost gaudy, colours and stiff-limbed figures with heavily shaded faces. However recent research by Dominique Vanwijnsberghe in the archives of Lille shows that Liédet and his brother Huchon (or Husson) were still listed in the archives of that city in 1483 and 1484.

References

• Legaré Anne-Marie.

  After 1467 he was found in Bruges, where he was a member of the Guild of Saint Luke listed as an illuminator. A two-volume copy of a historical text contains his earliest known work as an illuminator, which the scribe recorded as being completed in 1454 in Hesdin, France, presumably Liédet's birthplace. Loyset Liédet spent most of his career working for the powerful dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good and his son Charles the Bold.

  Liédet was long thought to have died around 1479, the date of the last mention of him in the archives of Bruges.

  Achievements

  • Although he was very successful, and patronized by the leading collectors of his day, his work does not attain the standards of his finest Flemish contemporaries, with whom he often collaborated on large commissions.

  Membership

  After 1467 he was found in Bruges, where he was a member of the Guild of Saint Luke listed as an illuminator.

  

  Between 1454 and 1460 he worked in Hesdin where he produced 55 thumbnails for Louisiana Fleur des Histoires by Jean Mansel, commissioned by Philip the Good of the House of Valois-Burgundy. He also illustrated Royal Library of Belgium MS 9967, a copy of Jehan Wauquelin's edition of La Belle Hélène de Constantinople and 20 miniatures for Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist (Mystery of The Vengeance of Our Lord Jesus Christ) by Eustache Marcadé for Philip, now in the British Library.^[1][2]

  He also did some work for Charles the Bold.

Loyset Liédet (1420 – after 1479, or after 1484), was a Flemishminiaturist and illuminator, running a workshop which may have been of some size. Numerous court documents give evidence of his career in Bruges, where he received commissions for miniatures in at least fifteen manuscripts between 1468 and 1472.

Between 1454 and 1460 he worked in Hesdin where he produced 55 thumbnails for La Fleur des Histoires by Jean Mansel, commissioned by Philip the Good of the House of Valois-Burgundy. He also did some work for Charles the Bold.

In his early work, he was influenced by Simon Marmion.

In all probability he continued to work in Bruges until 1479.

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Loyset Liédet, was an early Netherlandish miniaturist and illuminator, running a workshop which may have been of some size. His early work showed the influence of the painter and illuminator Simon Marmion, a French illuminator also active at the Burgundian court.

By 1468 Liédet had moved to Bruges in Flanders, where he became a member of the stationers' guild in 1469.

Liédet was long thought to have died around 1479, the date of the last mention of him in the archives of Bruges. IV 1290, led by Dominique Allard et al. Liédet devoted much of his work around 1470 to illuminating manuscripts for Charles the Bold; in two years, he produced over 400 miniatures for him.

Liédet was among the last of a generation of Flemish illuminators who worked almost exclusively on commission for members of the Burgundian court rather than producing manuscripts for sale on the open market.