He is identified with "Gheleyn van Brugge" who joined the Guild of St Luke in
Antwerp in 1492. Early work for Henry VIII includes glazing the windows of pavilions at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold. In England, Hone was made the King's glazier in succession to
Barnard Flower. He worked at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold. Hone made glass for
Eton College and
King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Some of the payments for the windows at Eton were made to his wife. Three design drawings for the King's College windows are held by
Bowdoin College,
Maine, and can be related to contracts made by Galyon Hone and other glaziers in 1526. A design for stained glass in known as a "vidumus". The drawings at Bowdoin are in the manner of
Dirck Vellert, an artist who worked in Antwerp. In 1527, Hone was employed repairing the glazing of
Sunninghill Park, a royal house in
Windsor Great Park, when it was intended
Princess Mary would stay there. He lived in the parish of
St Mary Magdalene and then in
Southwark, where Henry VIII allowed him to employ six foreign journeymen instead of the two craftsmen usually permitted. There was a community of artists and craftsmen from Holland and the Netherlands, and in 1547 Hone was mentioned in the will of his friend, the court goldsmith
Cornelis Hayes. Hone and the printer
John Siberch were overseers of the will of a German painter living in
Bermondsey, Henry Blankstone. Blankstone painted renaissance style borders and royal ciphers in the Long Gallery at Hampton Court. near
Oakham,
Leicestershire, including the heraldry of
Jane Seymour. They were commissioned by Roger Ratcliffe, a former member of the household of
Catherine of Aragon In 1533 Galyon Hone's work at Hampton Court included heraldic glass:In the two great windows at the ends of the hall is two great arms with four beasts in them ... Also in the said windows in the hall is 30 of the King and Queens arms ... also badges of the King and Queen ... also 77
sceptres with the King's word ... glazing 11 side windows ...in the gable window at the east end the Queen's arms new set. Galyon Hone glazed an arbour or "herber" at the mount in the garden of Hampton Court in 1533. He supplied heraldic glass before February 1534 for Henry VIII at
Hunsdon House, Hertfordshire. In 1534 he made some repairs at
Woking Palace and at
Westenhanger where he glazed the windows of a chamber for
Princess Mary and her maidens. At
Greenwich Palace he added glass with badges of
Jane Seymour in 1536, and reworked old glass in the chapel at
Leeds Castle. Hone glazed the new
Jewel House at the
Tower of London. In 1541 Hone made windows for the presence chamber and watching chamber at Hampton Court, and provided glass for Henry's palace at
The More. In 1544, he glazed the windows of new lodgings around the base court of
Dartford, a palace constructed in the
former priory. He repaired windows at Leeds Castle for a visit by
Catherine Parr in 1544. Galyon Hone seems to have died in 1552. He had a son, Gerrard Hone, who was also a glazier working in England. Gerrard Hone married Marion, a niece of the royal carpenter Thomas Stockton, and widow of Jasper Rolfe. During restoration work at Hampton Court in the 1840s by the glazier
Thomas Willement, some stained glass, possibly by Galyon Hone, was recovered and removed. It was presented to the church of St Alban at
Earsdon, near
Whitley Bay by
Lord Hastings of
Delavel Hall in 1878. ==Withcote and Roger Ratcliffe==