Marcus geeraerts the younger biography sample

          Marcus Gheeraerts was born in Bruges in or , and was brought to England in by his father, a painter of whose work hardly anything is known....

          Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

          Flemish painter (c.

          Biography.

        1. Marcus Gheeraerts (also written as Gerards or Geerards; c.
        2. Marcus Gheeraerts was born in Bruges in or , and was brought to England in by his father, a painter of whose work hardly anything is known.
        3. The Ditchley Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I was painted in by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, who was renowned as the “most fashionable.
        4. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger was born in Bruges.

          5. /62 – )

          Marcus Gheeraerts (also written as Gerards or Geerards; c. /62 – 19 January ) 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"[1] 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 s.

          Family

          Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (sometimes known as Mark Garrard[2]) was born in Bruges, the son of the artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder and his wife Johanna.

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