Lieven van Lathem

[1] 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 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 to Margaret of York, held in Bruges in 1468.

Around the year 1515, an Italian banker in Bruges, Jerome Frescobaldi, loaned money to Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, 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.