 Otherwise, very few concrete details of Pourbus' first few years in Bruges are known.It would appear that he initially operated as a student of Blondeel.It remains unclear in some cases whether paintings from this period were the result of collaboration between Pourbus and Blondeel, or whether they were painted by Pourbus alone; an example of this is the painting "The Seven Joys of the Virgin", which today hangs in the Tournai Cathedral.