Quentin Massys the Younger (c. 1543 – 1589)
• Was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
• He was the son of Flemish painter Jan Massys, Matsys, or Metsys.
• He was active as artists of the Tudor court in the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
• The younger Quentin was born in Antwerp.
• He there joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1574.
• By c. 1581 he was living in London, likely having fled religious persecution in Antwerp as his father and uncle had done.
• He left England for Frankfurt in 1588 and died there the next year.
• He is best known for the Sieve Portrait of Elizabeth I, commissioned by Christopher Hatton in 1583.
• Elizabeth is surrounded by symbols of empire, including a column and a globe, iconography that would appear again and again in her portraiture of the 1580s and 1590s.
