Master of Jannecke Bollengier

The Master of Jannecke Bollengier was a Flemish painter of illuminated manuscripts active in the area around Ghent, or possibly Bruges, around 1500.

His name is derived from an Hours made for the grand-daughter of Jacques le Boulengier, equerry to Charles the Bold.^[1]

The painter is known for the Arenberg Hours, from Flanders, Bruges, around 1500. It contains 16 full-page miniatures in full borders and 24 decorated calendar pages depicting seasonal day-to-day life. The book was housed in the library of the Dukes of Arenberg from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Scholars identify the Master of Jannecke Bollengier as the hand that created this book and as the painter who collaborated with the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book.^[2]

Note that other books by different artists of the same period are also sometimes known as Arenberg Hours, including the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, from about 1440,^{[citation needed]} and one of the Hours produced by Willem Vrelant about 1460.^[3]

Comparable books in similar style exist in other library and museum collections; their association with the Master, however, remains unclear.^{[citation needed]}