Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Painting, Visual Artist
– 1636
Who was Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger?
Marcus Gheeraerts was an artist of the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and Van Dyck" He was brought to England as a child by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, also a painter. He became a fashionable portraitist in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth I under the patronage of her champion and pageant-master Sir Henry Lee, introducing a new aesthetic in English court painting that captured the essence of a sitter through close observation. He became a favorite portraitist of James I's queen Anne of Denmark, but fell out of fashion in the later 1610s.
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- Also known as
- Marcus Gerards the Younger
- Marcus Geerards the Younger
- Parents
- Nationality
- England
- Lived in
- Bruges
- Died
- Jan 19, 1636
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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