Editing Gerard David (section)

==Legacy==
At the time of David's death, the glory of Bruges and its painters was on the wane: Antwerp had become the leader in art as well as in political and commercial importance. Of David's pupils in Bruges, only [[Adriaen Isenbrandt]],<ref name=":0" /> [[Albert Cornelis]], and [[Ambrosius Benson]] achieved importance. Among other Flemish painters, [[Joachim Patinir]], [[Jan Mabuse]] and the [[Master of the Plump-Cheeked Madonnas]] were to some degree influenced by him.{{sfn|Konody|1911}}<ref name=mar1>D. Martens, 'Le Maître aux Madones Joufflues: Essai de monographie sur un anonyme brugeois du XVIme siècle,' Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch LXI, 2000, pp. 112-115, 141, n. 23, figs. 1, 6, 15 {{in lang|fr}}<!--French--></ref>

David's name had been completely forgotten when in 1866 [[William Henry James Weale]] discovered documents about him in the archives of Bruges; these brought to light the main facts of the painter's life and led to the reconstruction of David's artistic personality,<ref name=":0" /><ref name="met" /> beginning with the recognition of David's only documented work, the ''Virgin Among Virgins'' at Rouen.<ref>Weale, ''Gerard David, Painter and Illuminator'' 1895; the ''Virgo inter Virgines'' appears in a 1527 inventory of the Carmelite convent of Sion at Bruges.</ref>