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| Jan van der Asselt (after 1330–bef. 1398) | ||||||||||
| Van der Asselt was a Flemish painter from Ghent. He is first recorded as having completed paintings for the chapel of the Prinsenhof in Ghent, the residence of the Count of Flanders, Louis van Male. In 1365 he was appointed court painter by the count, and around 1372–1373 he was commissioned to execute frescoes in the Gravenkapel—dedicated to St Catherine—next to the Church of Our Lady in Kortrijk. His work there included 28 niche portraits under trefoil arches of the Counts of Flanders, four saints, and a Last Judgement. When the frescoes were rediscovered in the 19th century beneath a layer of lime applied during the French Revolution, it was found that the faces in the portraits were completely lost. Between 1866 and 1870, the frescoes were extensively restored and reconstructed by Jan van der Plaetsen. As a result, Van der Asselt’s original work cannot be distinguished. By 1381 Van der Asselt was no longer court painter, having been replaced by Melchior Broederlam. He is mentioned again in 1386 in connection with a payment for an altarpiece for the Church of the Friars Minor in Ghent, and several more times between 1388 and 1395 in relation to the painters’ guild of Ghent, in which he seems to have played an important role. The last known reference to him alive is from 1395, when he was named in a will. | ||||||||||
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