Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
(1561 or 1562-1636), PainterSitter in 2 portraits
Artist associated with 29 portraits
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger spent his early years in Bruges, Belgium, where his father, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, was active as a painter and printmaker. When he was about seven, the family moved to London. Gheeraerts eventually obtained many commissions from the English court, both for portraits and for decorative work. He was the most distinguished and most fashionable portraitist of the 1590s, popular at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I. Following the death of Anne of Denmark, wife of James I, Gheeraerts's sitters came increasingly from the gentry.
Unknown woman, formerly known as Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
by William Thomas Fry, after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
stipple engraving, early 19th century
NPG D27990
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
by Henry Bone, after John De Critz the Elder, or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, December 1811
NPG D17108
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
by Henry Bone, probably after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, September 1812
NPG D17150
by Henry Bone, after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1822 (circa 1592)
NPG D17098
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
by Samuel Freeman, published by Harding, Triphook & Lepard, after William Derby, after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
stipple engraving, published 1 June 1825
NPG D36324
Lady Elizabeth Berkeley (née Carey)
by Henry Bone, possibly after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1825
NPG D17152
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
by William Derby, after Unknown artist, possibly after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
pencil, pen and ink, circa 1835-1842 (1615-1630)
NPG D23090
Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby
by Alfred Thomas Derby, possibly after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
pencil, pen and ink, 1839
NPG D23087
published by John Player & Sons, after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1935
NPG D48137
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