Gerard Horenbout

Gerard Horenbout (also called Gerard Horne Bolte; * 1465 in Ghent, † 1541 in London) was a Flemish painter.

Horenbout joined in 1487 the guild of painters at Ghent. Later he gave himself painting lessons, his three sons were with him in teaching. Even the ancestors Gerard Horenbout were artistically operated. Horenbout dealt artistic in many areas: After he had completed his apprenticeship with a Flemish painter, he illustrated manuscripts produced in altarpieces and painted portraits. In a monastery near his native city of Ghent Horenbout worked for a time along with some nuns and with them creates a model garden. The flowers were made ​​from fabric and then delivered to the then ruler of Margaret of Austria in the Netherlands. In the years after 1500 the Scottish King James IV commissioned him to produce a book of hours. Through his work he seems to have become very wealthy, which can be seen from the fact that he bought in 1503 a highly decorated by painting the house.

Between 1522 and 1525 - the exact date is unknown - he emigrated with his family to England, perhaps due to the financial opportunities that awaited him on the island, however, emigration for religious reasons can not be excluded also. There he worked for the royal family. Horenbout lived in England until his death, and died in London.

His son Lucas Horenbout was in the service of Henry VIII, also the daughter of Gerard Horenbout, Susanna Horenbout, acted as one of the first women in the field of art, their works, however, are no longer handed down today.

Gerard Horenbout applies alongside Simon Bening as the leading Flemish painter of his time. Horenbout worked partly together with Bening.

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• Gerard Horenbout in Artcyclopedia
• Brief biography on the Paul Getty Museum page

• Early Netherlandish painter
• Painters of the Flemish Renaissance
• Born in 1465
• Died in 1541
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