Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Marcus Gerards the Younger ( * about 1561 or 1562 in Bruges, † January 19, 1636 ) was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
Biography
Due to religious persecution in the Netherlands fled Marcus Gerards the Elder in 1568 with his son to England. He brought his son in the art of drawing, it is also possible that Gerard the Younger also by Lucas de Heere (1534-1584) was mitausgebildet. His first portrait is dated to the year 1593. At this time he was already in the favor of Sir Henry Lee III, who then occupied a prominent position at the English royal court.
Later Gerads the Elder married an English woman with whom he had six children. It can be assumed that only two went beyond the child's age.
Gerard the Younger remained in England, unlike his father, who returned to the Netherlands in 1587 to devote himself to the art again. The younger man managed to develop a considerable reputation, he is considered one of the most esteemed portrait painters of the 1590s. Especially Anne of Denmark, which was associated with the English king James I, Fallen is said to have found in his paintings.
In the 1610er years, he still received high salaries for his work, he was even officially the royal Hofzeichner, but he made it in this time, not more, to compete against the new artist, which endangered his position at court. In the last twenty years of his life he was mainly of academics and low aristocracy orders.
The English painter Ferdinando Clifton was his pupil.