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dc.contributor.authorGeeraerts, Marcus, the younger (Flemish painter, 1561-1635, active in England)
dc.coverage.spatialTate Gallery
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-04T15:16:25Z
dc.date.available2008-09-04T15:16:25Z
dc.date.created1594
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.citationRichard Humphreys, The Tate Britain Companion to British Art, 2001.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/21570
dc.descriptionGheeraerts II was a Bruges-born painter who came from a major dynasty of Netherlandish painters, settling in London after 1560. It is believed his work was highly influential in Elizabethan London and he was possibly among the first to use canvas as a painting support to entirely new effect. The present portrait depicts Captain Thomas Lee, an English army captain, who served under Queen Elizabeth I and spent most of his career in Ireland during the Tudor conquest of that country. The painter employed a variety of visual devices to illustrate the sitter's political purpose, including the use of costume, oak tree and references to Roman hero Scaevola.en
dc.format.extent850251 bytes
dc.format.mediumoil paint (pigmented coating)en
dc.format.mimetypeimage/jpeg
dc.language.isootheren
dc.subject.lcshPortraiten
dc.subject.lcshLee, Thomasen
dc.subject.lcshMilitaryen
dc.subject.lcshGentryen
dc.subject.lcshUpper classen
dc.subject.lcshCostumeen
dc.subject.lcshScaevola, Gaius Muciusen
dc.subject.lcshPistolsen
dc.subject.lcshOaken
dc.titlePortrait of Captain Thomas Leeen
dc.typeImageen
dc.contributor.roleartisten
dc.coverage.cultureFlemishen
dc.format.extentdimensions230.5 x 150.8 cm
dc.format.supportcanvasen
dc.subject.periodElizabethan
dc.type.workpaintingen


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