 Another prominent commission was his works for the mausoleum of Margaret of Austria at the Annunciation Convent in Bruges, which the Annunciation currently displayed at Museum Gouda was part of.Pourbus gradually became a popular portrait painter among the upper class, such as wine merchant Jan van Eyewerve and his wife Jacquemyne Buuck.In addition, Pourbus began to expressly date and sign his works in this period, indicative of the rise in his reputation and his growing artistic independence.