and Gherardo, also of Ghent.[1] There are besides certain women who have herein distinguished themselves; as, for example, Susanna, the sister of Lucas above-named, who was invited to England by Henry VIIL, and lived there in great honour her whole life long; Clara Skeysers of Ghent, who died unmarried at the age of eighty; Anna, daughter of the physician, Maestro Segher; Levina, daughter of the above-named Maestro Simon of Bruges, who was nobly married in England by Henry YIII., was held in great esteem by Queen Mary, and is now in much favour with Queen Elizabeth, have all obtained a name in this art; as hath also Caterina, the daughter of Maestro Giovanni d’Hemsen, who went into Spain, and entered the service of the Queen of Hungary with a very good stipend. There are besides many other excellent miniaturists among the women of those parts.[2]
In the art of glass and window painting there have also been many masters of great ability in those countries. Among them are Art Van Hort of Nymvegen;[3] Borghese,[4] of Antwerp; Jacob Felart;[5] Dittick Stas of Campen; and Johann Ack of Antwerp; by the last of whom are the windows in the Chapel of the Sacrament, in the Church of St. Gudule, at Brussels. We have also two able Flemish painters in Tuscany, Walter and George namely, who have painted several windows for the Duke, at Florence, after the designs of Vasari.
In architecture and sculpture, the most renowned artists among the Flemings are Sebastian d’Oia of Utrecht,[6] who served Charles V. in his Fortifications, as he afterwards did Philip II. Wilhelm of Antwerp, Wilhelm Cucur of Hol-
- ↑ This Gerard of Ghent is believed by Morelli, Notizia di disegno, &c., to be Gerard Van der Meer; other authorities consider him to be Gerard Horebout. He painted twenty-five miniatures in a MS. for the Library of San Marco in Venice.
- ↑ Of these ladies the present writer can find no well-authenticated details of interest.
- ↑ Arnold Von der Hout; sometimes, but incorrectly, called the inventor of burning the colours into glass. “He is probably," says the German Förster, “the same person with the above-named Lambert Van Hort."
- ↑ Mentioned by Guicciardini, in his description of the Netherlands, but believed to be the same with Simon Benich.
- ↑ Named by Guicciardini, but unknown to the German writers, as are the two artists whose names follow that of Felart in the text.
- ↑ He died in 1557, at the age of thirty, but his works are not known.
