Elizabeth Wentworth

The death date of 09/21/1589 is just not correct. She married 1598. Had a son Charles in 1608.

Elizabeth Wentworth, daughter of John Wentworth and Elizabeth Southwell. She married Charles Garneys, of an ancient and wealthy family, in 1598. Charles was High Sheriff of Norfolk from 1652. They had a child, also Charles (1608-1661). The Garneys lived at Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk; Kenton Hall, Suffolk and Boyland Hall, Morningthorpe, Norfolk. Wentworth Garneys (1656-1679) was the grandson of Elizabeth and the fact that her marriage into the Garneys had brought them Somerleyton Hall is commemorated in his name. The Garneys main seat was Boyland Hall and this portrait was hanging there in 1927 by which time the estate had passed to the Irbys. The painting is described in detail in Sing's book on portraits in Norfolk country houses. MARCUS GHEERAERTS (also written as Gerards or Geerards; c. 1561/62 – 19 January 1636) was a Flemish artist working at the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and Van Dyck". He was brought to England as a child by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, also a painter. 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. He became a favourite portraitist of James I's queen, Anne of Denmark, but fell out of fashion with the royal family in the late 1610s. His work thereafter was among the lesser aristocracy and rich gentry.