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  1. The portrait of Captain Thomas Lee 1594, also known as 'the man with bare legs', is one of the best loved early pictures in the Tate Collection. Yet little is known about the man who painted it: Marcus Gheeraerts II, or 'the Younger' (1561/2-1636).

  2. Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee 1594 by Marcus Gheeraerts II. Rica Jones and Joyce H. Townsend

  3. He became a fashionable portraitist in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth I under the patronage of her champion and pageant-master Sir Henry Lee. He introduced a new aesthetic in English court painting that captured the essence of a sitter through close observation.

  4. Title: Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee; Creator: Marcus Gheeraerts II; Creator Death Place: London, United Kingdom; Creator Birth Place: Brugge, België; Date Created: 1594; Provenance:...

  5. Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee. 1594. Add to lightbox. Artwork Details. Classification: painting. Medium: Oil paint on canvas. Dimensions: support: 2305 x 1508 mm. Provenance: Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, the Art Fund and the Pilgrim Trust 1980. Image ID #: T03028. Accession #: T03028. Credit Lines.

  6. Thomas served in the English colonial forces in Ireland. His bare legs are a fantasy evocation both of the dress of an Irish soldier, and that of a Roman hero. Thomas was suspected of treachery to Elizabeth and visited London in 1594 partly to refute this.

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  8. Thomas was related to Sir Henry Lee, Elizabeth I's Champion and creator of imagery for her annual Accession Day celebrations. Henry may have helped devise ...