Marcus Gheeraerts 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.
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Engraving by Wenceslas Hollar, 1644, of a self-portrait of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1627 (now lost).
Unfinished portrait sketch of Sir Henry Lee, likely to have been from life; oil on canvas, c. 1600
Queen Elizabeth I, the Ditchley Portrait, c. 1592. Oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, 1596![Anne of Denmark, 1611-1614, oil on canvas, Woburn Abbey[17]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Anne_of_Denmark_Gheeraerts.jpg/330px-Anne_of_Denmark_Gheeraerts.jpg)
Anne of Denmark, 1611-1614, oil on canvas, Woburn Abbey[17]
Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn, 1614.
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About this person
Marcus Gheeraerts 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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