Marcus Gheeraerts, the Younger

Geeraerts, Marcus the Younger

Flemish, c. 1561/1562 - 1636

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This painting shows a man from the thighs up. He has a fair complexion, curly brown hair, a beard, and a mustache. His brown eyes look out at the viewer. He is wearing an elaborate white doublet with a high ruffled collar, a dark cloak, and a blue ribbon with a colorful medallion around his neck. He also wears a gold belt over white trousers. He is holding the golden hilt of a sword in one hand and has his other hand on his hip. The background is light blue.
Anonymous Artist, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1596/1601, oil on wood, Gift of Mrs. Henry R. Rea, 1947.18.1

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Anonymous Artist · 1596/1601 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1947.18.1

Bibliography

1913

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1914

  • Poole, Mrs. Reginald Lane. "Marcus Gheeraerts, Father and Son, Painters." Walpole Society 3 (1914): 1-8.

1963

  • Millar, Sir Oliver. "Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: A Sequel through Inscriptions." The Burlington Magazine 105 (1963): 533-541.

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1969

  • Strong, Sir Roy. The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture. London and New York, 1969: 21-24, 269-304.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 111.