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Author's biography |
Flemish-born portrait painter, who settled in England in 1568 with his father Marcus the Elder (c.1530-c.1590), an engraver and painter. Marcus the Younger was probably the leading society portraitist in London at the peak of his career (his popularity declined after about 1615), but it is not easy to disentangle his work from that of some of his contemporaries. The best-known work attributed to him is the splendid full-length portrait of Elizabeth I known as the "Ditchley" portrait (NPG, London, c.1592), in which the queen is shown standing on a map of England. |
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