From 1381 he was court painter to Louis de Mâle, Duke of Brabant, and from Louis's death in 1384 worked for his son-in-law and successor, Philip the Bold, although he remained based in Ypres, doing much work, mostly decorative, at Philip's now vanished chateau at Hesdin, which was full of elaborate mechanical devices, of what we might today call a fairground nature, which needed painting.
Melchior Lotter | Melchior | Melchior de Polignac | Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm | Dan Melchior | Melchior Lorck | Johann Melchior Goeze | Johann Melchior Dinglinger | Arne Melchior | Melchior Vulpius | Melchior von Diepenbrock | Melchior Russ | Melchior Meyr | Melchior d'Hondecoeter | Marie Melchior Joseph Théodore de Lagrené | Marcus Melchior | Johann Peter Melchior | Johann Melchior Molter | Ib Melchior |
also sometimes associated with Melchior Broederlam, and a damaged Entombment of Christ in Troyes.