Gerard Mercator.

Oil on canvas, 55,3 x 40,2 cm (visible), 68,5 x 53,4 cm (frame), unsigned, Latin title "GERARDUS MERCATOR / AETATIS. SUAE. LXII" (few sm. cracks, losses and retouching).

In black and gilt wooden frame (not studied outside frame). Good condition.

Portrait of the Flemish Renaissance cartographer at the age of 62, holding a compass and a globe. Painted by a skilled hand after Gerard Mercator's (1512-1594) most famous portrait, i.e. the engraving of Frans Hogenberg (c. 1538-1590), sometimes attributed to Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617).
Ref. Hollstein VIII.58.201 and IX.54.55.