The interior of a cobbler's shop

A pupil in Antwerp of the sculptor Michiel van der Voort I and then of the Dutch painter Jan van Pee (before 1640-1710), Horemans joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1706-7. He followed in the footsteps of the seventeenth-century Flemish genre painters, executing a few portraits and a large number of small anecdotal pictures of contemporary life that were highly prized by his contemporaries. Examples of the latter type include The Village School and The Cobbler's Shop (both 1712; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), The Musical Company (1715; Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum) and The Card-players (Florence, Uffizi).