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(1) Marcus Gheeraerts (i)
(b Bruges, c. 1520; d ?London, c. 1590). Printmaker and painter. He probably received his initial training from his stepfather, Simon Pieters (before 1552–1556), whom his mother married after the death of his father Egbert. Marcus was admitted into the Bruges Guild of St Luke only in 1558, and it is therefore assumed that he first worked in another town or had a further period of training, perhaps with the Brussels painter Bernard van Orley and, after van Orley’s death in 1543, in Antwerp with Hieronymus Cock or another engraver, at which time he met Lucas de Heere and Philipp Galle. Gheeraerts’s pupil in Bruges was Melchior d’Assonville ( fl 1518–1621).
Part of the Gheeraerts family
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