Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: Landscape , first recorded in 1598 , was borrowed as a painters ' term from Dutch during the 16th century , when Dutch artists were on the verge of becoming masters of the landscape art genre .
Simplified: The word was borrowed as a painters ' term from Dutch during the 16th century , when Dutch artists began to become masters of the landscape genre .