Flemish painter b. 1702, Ghent, d. 1772, Ghent   Related Paintings of REIJSSCHOOT, Pieter Jan van :. | Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino y Arteaga | Self Portrait | Bathers at Asnieres | New England Landscape with Ruined Chimney | Willows at Sunset (nn04) |
Related Artists:
Nesterov Nikolai Stepanovich
1862-1942
w. holmberg

HORENBOUT, Gerard
Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter and Manuscript Illuminator, ca.1465-1541 Painter, designer, scribe and cartographer. He may have been the pupil of Li?vin 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