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Gerard Horenbout or Gerard Hourenbout () was a Flanders miniaturist, a late example of the miniature tradition in Early Netherlandish painting. He is "likely and widely accepted" to be the Master of James IV of Scotland, a leading miniaturist of the period, responsible for the Spinola Hours and other major projects of the last flowering of the Flemish miniature tradition.Scot McKendrick. "Reviving the Past," in Illuminating the Renaissance: The Flemish Triumph of Manuscript Painting in Europe. Getty Publications; 1 July 2003. . pp. 411-413, 428
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 was visited by Albrecht Dürer in 1521, when Dürer bought an illustrated manuscript made by his daughter Susanna Horenbout. His son Lucas Horenbout was also a well-known painter.
His wife, Margaret Svanders, or van Saunders, died in 1529Kathy Lynn Emerson, Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1984. p. 113.James Thorne. Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged, Containing an Account of Every Town and Village, and of All Places of Interest, Within a Circle of Twenty Miles Round London. John Murray; 1876. p. 220. and he made the brass plaque found at All Saints' Church in Fulham, London.Susan E. James. The Feminine Dynamic in English Art, 1485-1603: Women As Consumers, Patrons and Painters. Ashgate Publishing Company; 2009. . pp. 242-243.
Major works attributed to the Master of James IV of Scotland include the Spinola Hours in the Getty Museum, "the most pictorially ambitious and original sixteenth-century Flemish manuscript",Kren & S McKendrick, 414, who also catalogue the Grimani Breviary and Vatican Hours. the Grimani Breviary in Venice, the Holford Hours in Lisbon (1526, probably his last work), the "Rothschild Prayerbook" (or "Hours"), the "Vatican Hours" and two detached miniatures in the Cloisters Museum. Image and commentary, the other of the pair On large projects he often collaborated with other masters.Kren & S McKendrick, 418-426 For example, in the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary, he was one of at least 12 artists who contributed to the decoration.
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