GHEERAERTS, Marcus the Younger
(b. 1561, Brugge, d. ca. 1636, London)

Portrait of a Woman

1601
Oil on panel, 114 x 84 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

The sitter is probably Mary Scudamore (née Shelton) (c. 1550-1603), the second wife of Sir John Scudamore (d. 1623), or Eleanor Scudamore (née Croft) (buried 1569), his first wife.