Borman, [Passchier and Jan III].

The Bormans, also Borremans or Borremans, are a long dynasty of sculptors whose founder, Jan the Elder, began working in Louvain and whose son, Jan II the Great, settled in Brussels in 1479, where they maintained an active workshop until the last decade of the 16th century. Producing works in the late Gothic style, such as the wooden model for the bronze sepulchre of Mary of Burgundy, Jan II raised the prestige of the workshop to the point of being considered the best wood sculptor in Brussels, a prestige that his sons Passchier (Passier or Pasquier) and Jan III inherited, authors of the signed altarpieces of St. Crispin and St. Crispinian in Herental and the Passion for the church of St. Mary in Güstrow respectively, which were executed around the same time as the court's stay in Brussels for the coronation of Charles V in Aachen.