Lucas Horenbout (c. 1490/1495 – 1544)

• He was a Flemish artist.
• Often called Hornebolte in England.
• Horenbout was born in Ghent, where he trained with his father, Gerard Horenbout.
• Becoming a master of the local Guild of Saint Luke in 1512.
• Horenbout came over to England at an unknown date.
• In about 1525 he married Margaret Holsewyther.
• Lucas is documented in England from September 1525, when he was first paid by the King as "pictor maker".
• By 1531 he was described as the "King's Painter", and this appointment was confirmed for life in June 1534.
• Horenbout was very well paid, at sixty-two pounds and ten shillings per year.
• He was granted a "tenement" in Charing Cross, and permitted to take on four foreign journeyman.
• Lucas died in London, and left a wife and daughter, Margaret and Jacquemine.
• Twenty-three surviving portrait miniatures have been attributed to Horenbout in recent decades.

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