Author: VRELANT, WILLEM [= WILLEM BACKER; also called GUILLAUME WYELANT]. Bousmanne, Bernard.
Title: Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur. Willem Vrelant. Un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire.
Description: [Brussels], Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique & [Turnhout], Brepols, [1997]. 390 pp. Num. ills (some col.). Orig. hardcover (clothbound), d./j. Large 8vo.Text in French. - Willem Vrelant (died c. 1481/1482) was a Dutch book illuminator. He is first registered in 1449, when an illuminator from Vreeland named Willem Backer obtained citizenship of Utrecht. He may have lived in Utrecht for years, as in 1450 he finished there the Hours of William de Montfort. From 1454 to 1481 he is recorded as a member of the Bruges guild of bookmakers. His large and productive workshop produced (among others) a book of hours which is now in Baltimore (1455-60), the Hours of Isabella of Castille (c.1460), the Chronicles of Hainaut (1468) and individual miniatures in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy (c.1480). Following Vrelant's death, his widow inherited his workshop. Madame Vrelant ran the studio alongside Elisabeth Scepens, one of his former pupils. [Source: Wikipedia].

Keywords: Miniature Miniaturen