ABSTRACT
Lucas de Heere, says Carel van Mander in his lives of the northern painters 1 , was born at Ghent in 1534. He learned drawing first from his father and then was apprenticed to the celebrated Frans Floris under whom he made rapid progress, particularly in making designs for glass and for tapestries which passed as being by Floris himself. He then travelled abroad and went to France, “where he executed many cartoons for tapestries for the queen, mother of the king. He went frequently to Fontainebleau where there are many fine things to see, antique figures, pictures and so on”.
