The Horenbout family workshop at the Tudor court, 1522–1541: Collaboration, patronage and production

For 500 years, the work of the Horenbout family of Flemish artists at the Tudor court (fl. 1522–1548) has played a supporting role in art histories. Foundational in the creation of the English miniature tradition and initiators of repetitive portraiture employed as a political tool, they have taken a back seat in the literature both to contemporaries like Hans Holbein and to those who came after. Yet the Horenbouts—paterfamilias Gheraert, daughter Susanna, son Lucas, daughter-in-law Margaret—were principal players in the visual campaigns of propaganda and self-promotion undertaken by Henry VII... Mehr ...