Susanna Horenbout

Susanna Horenbout (* around 1503 , † around 1550 ; also Susannah Hornebolt ) was a Flemish illuminator and the first painter in England.

Horenbout's father was Gerard Horenbout , who emigrated from the Netherlands between 1522 and 1525 and subsequently worked in England. During a visit to the Netherlands, the German painter Albrecht Dürer noted that he had seen a page colored by Horenbout, which impressed him very much.

After Horenbout's parents emigrated to England, she married John Parker, who, however, died between 1537 and 1538. Then she married John Gymlyn.

None of their works has survived to this day. In addition to her function as a painter, she was also referred to in some texts as a lady-in-waiting.

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• Brief biography of Susanna Horenbout
• Chronicle of the history of English women painters