Chief Associate Of The Bedford Master

Biography:

The Dunois Master, also called Chief Associate of the Bedford Master, was a French manuscript illuminator believed to have been active between about 1430 and about 1465. His name comes from a book of hours made for Jean de Dunois now in the British Library (Yates Thompson MS 3). He worked in the style of the Bedford Master and is believed to have been his chief assistant. The Dunois Master is known for his work on the Bedford Hours, the Salisbury Breviary, and other manuscripts. Recent scholarship has tended to move from talking about the 'Bedford Master' to the 'Bedford Workshop' and even the Bedford Trend, a term introduced by Millard Meiss in 1967, which includes a wider period leading up to the key Bedford works. A 'Master of the Bedford Trend' has also been attributed with some works. One possible candidate for the identity of the Bedford Master is 'Haincelin of Hagenau' in Alsace, who was recorded in Paris between 1403 and 1424, and was perhaps the father of 'Jean Haincelin', active between at least 1438 and 1449, and was perhaps the 'Dunois Master' who has been given a group of late Bedford-style manuscripts.