ASCRIBED TO MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (circa 1561/62-1636)
A portrait of a young gentleman wearing a lace ruff and a red sash,
bust-length,
oil on panel,
56cm x 44.5cm,
in a giltwood frame carved with tulip heads and crossheads and with scrolling acanthus leaves.
Provenance: Apparently sold at Messrs Christie, Manson & Woods on July 22nd 1932 for the Bramley family of Badmondisfield, Hall, Suffolk.
Private collection, Dewlish, Dorset.
Marcus Gheeraerts became a fashionable portraitist in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth I
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£2,000 - £4,000
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Hammer price:
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£7,000 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
under the patronage of her champion and Pageant-Master Sir Henry Lee. He later became a favourite portrait painter of James I and Queen Anne of Denmark. Although raised in England, the artist's work reflects a continental aesthetic very different from the flat modelling of features and pure brilliant colours associated with other Elizabethan artists. Indeed, stylistically his work is more akin to the portraits of Frans PourbUs.
