Alexander Bening

Bening was part of a South Netherlandish family of illuminators.

Sanders and his family lived in Ghent, but in 1486 he also joined the Bruges Guild of St John and St Luke, whose membership embraced all those concerned with the production of books.

[2] His daughter Cornelia married Andrew Halyburton, Conservator of Scottish privileges in the Netherlands.

[3] It has been suggested that Bening himself was related to a family of artists surnamed "Binning" working in Edinburgh later in the sixteenth century.

[4][5] Some scholars identify the Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximilian with Alexander Bening.