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Birth Name: Marcus Gheeraerts
Born: 1 January 1970 Died: 19 January 1636
Country of origin: 
Belgium
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Marcus Gheeraerts (also written as Gerards or Geerards) (c. 1561/62 – 19 January 1636) was a Belgian artist of 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, introducing a new aesthetic in English court painting that captured the essence of a sitter through close observation.
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