DERMOYEN, Willem
(active 1520-1530s in Brussels)

Biography

Dermoyen (also d'Armoyen or Moy), family of Brussels weavers and tapestry dealers, who played a leading role in the production in the period c. 1510-1550. In 1527 Christiaan was persecuted for heresy. The best known member is Willem, who supplied sets for Henry III of Nassau in 1532-33, François I of France in 1529-34, and to Mary of Hungary in 1535. In 1533 the firm sent Dermoyen and the painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst to Constantinople, and in the same year Willem, in partnership with the Antwerp merchant Pieter van de Walle, offered an edition of the Battle of Pavia to the sultan.



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