Susannah Hornebolt

[5] The daughter of Flemish artist Gerard Hornebolt and sister of Lucas Horenbout,[3] Susannah learned to paint with her father.

She was a gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber for Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Parr and perhaps Queen Mary.

[5] In 1534 miniature portraits were made of them by Hans Holbein the Younger,[13] which may be titled A Court Official of King Henry VIII and his wife and held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.

[15] The trip was to Cleves was led by Nicholas Wotton, dean of Canterbury, and included her husband, John Gilman.

In June of that year Hornebolt and her husband brought a case to the Court of Requests against John Parker's heirs.

[12][nb 3] According to James Lees-Milne, Hornebolt worked for the king as a "clever illuminator" and had competition from another woman, the daughter of manuscript illuminator Simon Bening, Levina Teerlinc of Bruges,[9][nb 4] who was 10 or more years younger than Hornebolt.

Mackie, author of The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558 submits that portraits and miniatures of the king were likely made by Gerard, Lucas, and Susannah.

[2][nb 5] "This Susanna Hornbaud is stated to have practised painting in miniature in England and with greatest success, being much patronised by Henry the Eighth and all the Court," said The Society of Antiquaries of London.

[20] She was described by authors Lorne Campbell and Susan Foister as "an excellent painter and illuminator, who had found the highest favour at the court of Henry VIII in England.

[21] Catherine Parr was said to have employed three women miniature painters and these were Susannah Hornebolt, Levina Teerlinc and Margaret Holsewyther.

[22] Susanna Horenbout and John Parker are the protagonists in a series of historical fiction novels by Michelle Diener, first published in 2011.