Career
Only a few details about de Hondt’s life have been preserved. He is recorded as working in Mechelen. Since his widow remarried on 10 February 1665, we know he died before that date.
He is sometimes confused with another artist who signed his paintings with L. de Hondt.
This other artist who also specialised in battle scenes and made designs for tapestries around 1700 is referred to as Lambert de Hondt the Younger. lieutenant is not known whether the two artists were related.
De Hondt must have enjoyed high-level patronage as one of his paintings (An Encampment with Soldiers Playing Cards, now at the Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London) is marked with a white fleur-de-lis, and originally had a coat of arms on the back. This indicates that the painting was in the collection of Elisabeth Farnese.