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Marcus Gheeraerts, the Younger | National Galleries of Scotland

1561/62 – 1636)

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"^[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 1610s.

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 Joh Gheeraerts the younger, Marcus, 1561/1562–1635/1636 | Art UK CODAF