# Portrait of Erard de la Marck

- By: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
- Date: c. 1528 - c. 1530
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 64.4 cm x width 55.5 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the State of the Netherlands and the Stichting tot de Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4069--32ef151fbd7498f5e60bbc2b29d88667)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/842d6536fe0b05b636aada1dfc831156.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Erard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège, had a reputation as a ruthless inquisitor (opponent of heresy), but also as a great patron of the arts and a protagonist of the modern Renaissance style in the northern and southern Netherlands.