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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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Marcus Gheeraerts II Sir Henry Lee
1600 -
Marcus Gheeraerts II Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington
1592 -
Marcus Gheeraerts II Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee
1594 -
Marcus Gheeraerts II Portrait of a Woman in Red
1620 -
Marcus Gheeraerts II Portrait of a Man in Classical Dress, possibly Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
c.1610 -
Attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts II Portrait of an Unknown Lady
c.1595
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