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(1) Gerard Horenbout
(b Ghent, ?before 1465; d 1541 or before). Painter, designer, scribe and cartographer.
He may have been the pupil of Liévin de Stoevere ( fl 1463), the only painter of the five artists who guaranteed his admission fee into the guild of painters and illuminators in Ghent in 1487. Horenbout became a versatile and productive artist, painting altarpieces, portraits and illuminated manuscripts and designing tapestries and stained-glass windows. He also collaborated with the nuns of the convent of Galilee near Ghent in making a model garden with flowers made of cloth that he delivered to Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, at her court in Mechelen. He seems to have achieved a degree of wealth commensurate with his output: in 1503 he acquired a house that may have had a façade painted with figures, which was a distinct rarity. At least three of his six children—Susanna, Lucas and another son—were active in his workshop from 1521 onwards. Pupils’ places in his studio were evidently much sought after, for in each of the years between 1498 and 1502 he engaged an apprentice on unusually exacting terms. On 1 April 1515 Margaret of Austria appointed him court painter and valet de chambre, with permission to maintain his workshop at Ghent. He was paid on several occasions for illuminating Books of Hours. In 1522 Margaret bought a portrait of Christian II of Denmark (untraced) from him. Thereafter there is no further record of him in Ghent. In 1521 Dürer met him and his daughter in Antwerp.
Part of the Horenbout family
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