$6 Painfers in the Reign of Henry VI It. 



0( another painter mentioned in the pay- 

 ments above, we know ftill lefs than of 

 Toto. He is there called Gerard Luke 

 Horneband. Vermander and Defcamps call 

 him Gerard Hoi-rebout, and both mention 

 him as painter to Henry VIII. He was of 

 Ghent, where were his principal works, but 

 none are known in England as his. f In 

 the fame book of payments are mentioned 

 two other painters, Andrew Oret, and one 

 Ambrofe. painter to the queen of Navarre. 

 The former indeed was of no great rank, 

 receiving 30 /. for painting and covering 

 the king's barge; the latter had 20 crowns 

 for bringing a pidlure to the king's grace at 

 Eltham. 



Henry had another ferjeant-painter, whofe 

 name was Andrew Wright; he lived in 

 Southwark and had a grant :|: of arms from 

 Sir Thomas Wriothefly, Garter. His motto 



f Sufanna, the fifter of Luke Horneband, painter in 



miniature, was invited, fays Vafari, into the fervice of 

 Henry VIII. and lived honorably in England to the end 

 of her life. 



X From a MS. in the pofTefficn of the late Peter Lenevc 

 Norroy. In the Eritiih Alufeuni, among the Harleian 

 MSS. is a grant of arms and creft to the Craft of Pain- 

 ters dated in the fLifl year of HeniV VIII. 



was. 



