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Biography

English painter of Flemish origin, part of a family of painters. He was brought to England as an infant in 1552. In or about 1567 he was apprenticed to the Flemish Mannerist painter Lucas de Heere (c.

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1534-c. 1584), then resident in England. De Critz stayed with him for at least four years; it was probably de Heere who introduced him to the statesman Sir Francis Walsingham (?1530-1590), for whom he worked in Paris (and perhaps in Italy) on at least six occasions (1582-88).

He supplied his patron with several works by his own hand and perhaps by others.

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It may be inferred from his training and from his trips to France that de Critz was fully aware of European Mannerism and the school of Fontainebleau. Thus it may well be that his was the driving force behind the development in England of the exotic, courtly and highly mannered Elizabethan portrait style.

In 1603 de Critz was appointed Serjeant-Painter, a post that from 1607 he shared with Robert Peake.

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