George Geldorp (died 1665 in London) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Cologne.
The son of Gortzius Geldorp, he was trained and active as a painter in Cologne before being admitted Master in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp in 1610. Two years later his first wife Margriet Parmentiers died in Antwerp.[1] In 1623, he moved to London where he painted a number of portraits in the Anglo-Netherlandish style, notably William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Catherine in 1626 in Hatfield House, Hertfordshire and Sir Arthur Ingram in late 1638/early 1639.[2] His work was generally less accomplished and his portraits more stiffly articulated than works of similar painters such as Daniel Mijtens.[3]
According to Houbraken, he was known to the artist biographer Joachim von Sandrart who wrote that he was not a very good draughtsman and had the habit of tracing other's sketches, and then pricking holes in these sketches, and sponging this onto the canvas as a guide to paint his subjects. Houbraken disapproved of this practise, and preferred to write about painters who were good draughtsman.[4]