Jan Boudolf

(b Bruges; fl 1368-81). South Netherlandish painter and illuminator. By 1368 at the latest he was in France, in the service of Charles V as court painter and 'valet de chambre'; in this year the King gave him a house in Saint-Quentin, northern France, in gratitude for his services. Boudolf regularly drew a substantial salary and by 1374 employed an assistant. Apart from the royal commissions, which are always referred to as 'paintings', Boudolf undertook other tasks. In 1371-2 a 'Jehan le peintre de Bruges', living in Dijon and identified with Jan Boudolf, was paid by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. A St Christopher in the church at Semur-en-Auxois may be attributed to him. Between 1371 and 1373 he decorated, among other things, a sedan chair for Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Flanders (1310-82), and in 1377 was paid for tapestry designs (untraced) for Louis I, 1st Duke of Anjou (see ANJOU, (8),

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