Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre
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The Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre is the name conventionally given to a manuscript illuminator active in Bruges between 1470 and 1480. He owes his name to his work on several manuscripts, including one held by the Austrian National Library in Vienna, of Jean de Wavrin's Recueil des croniques d'Angleterre. He specialised in illuminating manuscripts on historical subjects.
The style of this artist was detected for the first time by the German art historian Friedrich Winkler in a manuscript of the first volume of the Recueil des chroniques d'Angleterre (Austrian National Library MS 2534).[1] His hand was later found in six other manuscripts of the same text which gave it its name of convenience, the Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre. He was an illuminator working in Bruges, who specialized in the illumination of historical or pseudo-historical texts, though he also painted a few books of hours. He carried out orders for several bibliophiles of the court of Burgundy (Louis de Gruuthuse, Antoine de Bourgogne, Philippe de Clèves, Wolfert VI of Borselen) or for bourgeois of the city (Jan III de Baenst). He collaborated on several occasions with the illuminator Philippe de Mazerolles, also sometimes called the Master of the Froissart of Philippe de Commynes.[2]
