Artist
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Habsburg Netherlands, 1561–1636
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger was a Habsburg Netherlands Mannerism painter. 10 works are cataloged here, principally at Tate, most of them oil paintings. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger was born in Bruges.
Marcus Gheeraerts (also written as Gerards or Geerards; c. 1561/62 – 19 January 1636) was a Flemish artist working at 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.
He introduced 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 late 1610s.
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