Susanna Horenboult
Active in: Belgium and England
Alternate names: Horenbout, Hornebaud, Hoorenbault, Horebout
Biography
Susanna Horenboult was born in Ghent in 1503. She produced illuminated manuscripts and was admired by her contemporaries for her skill as a painter, but no surviving works have been identified. Both her father, Gerard, and her brother, Lucas, were practicing artists during her lifetime, and there is some evidence they shared professional opportunities as a family. In 1521, Albrecht Dürer recorded a meeting with Horenboult and her father in Antwerp. Sometime in the late 1520s, she moved to England, where she married an Englishman, John Parker.
For the rest of her life and career, Horenboult was affiliated with the English Tudor court. This affiliation included several New Year’s gifts for her and her husband from King Henry VIII. Horenboult’s first husband died in 1537 and two years later she married John Gilman. Later that year, she was sent by Henry VIII to accompany Anne of Cleves to England and Horenboult remained in Anne’s service for her reign as queen. She died in England in 1554.
Selected Works
Circle
Daughter of
Gheraert (Gerard) Horenbout
Sister of
Lucas Horenbout
Bibliography
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James, S. E., and J. S. Franco. “Susanna Horenbout, Levina Teerlinc and the mask of royalty.” Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000): 90–125.
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