David, GERHARD

David, GERHARD, painter, born about 1450, at Oudewater in Holland, in 1484 entered the Painters' Guild of Bruges, of which he became dean in 1501. He died in Bruges in 1523. The National Gallery, London, contains an admirable example of his work in 'A Canon and his Patron Saints,' a wing from an altarpiece; and among his other pictures are a Madonna, in the museum at Rome; a Crucifixion, in Berlin; and a Baptism of Christ and a Descent from the Cross, both at Bruges.