Career
He is "likely and widely accepted" to be the Master of James IV of Scotland. Horenbout lived and worked in Ghent and is best known a manuscript illustrator. He also made stained glass, tapestries, embroidery designs, ironworks and panel painting.
First mentioned in 1487, when he joined the painters Guild of Saint Luke.
They had six children, two of whom were the artists Lucas Horenbout and Susanna Hornebolt. There were also sons Eloy and Joris.
He had at least two apprentices, one in 1498, and one in 1502. In 1515, he was made painter to Archduchess Margaret of Austria, and also briefly worked at the court of Henry VIII in England.
He died about 1540 or 1541.