Heere, Lucas de (1534–1584)

Flemish painter and designer. Born in Ghent, de Heere was taught by Frans Floris and he, in turn, taught Carel van Mander in the late 1560s. He worked in France and England as well as Ghent. Among his best-known paintings is Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1559) in St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent.

Also attributed to him is the design of the Valois tapestries in 1582 (Uffizi, Florence), woven in Flanders to celebrate the arrival there of the soon-to-be-discredited Francis, Duke of (Alençon-)Anjou, in his role of ‘defender of the liberties of the Netherlands’.