Hendrick Danckerts (c.1625 - 1680) was a
Dutch Golden Age painter
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and engraver, mostly of houses in their landscape settings. After some years in Italy, he spent most of his career in London, working for Charles II and his brother.
Biography
Danckerts was born in
The Hague
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, where he learned his trade and remained until 1653.
[Hendrick Danckerts]
in RKD
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He visited
England
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for the first time in 1650.
[ In 1653 he went to Italy, where he stayed for five years.][ He then moved to England where he entered the service of Charles II and the Duke of York (later ]James II & VII
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.) He painted Italianate landscapes, especially views of harbours and royal residences.[ He also produced portraits and devotional pictures and made engravings after the Italian s in the Royal Collection. He left England in 1679][ due to the public hostility towards Roman Catholics after the Popish Plot controversy. He died soon after in ]Amsterdam
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, and was buried on 2 November 1680.[
He was also known as the "Master with the two Anchors" and was the younger brother of the painter Johan Danckerts.][ Danckerts has twenty paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom.]
References
Johan Danckerts
in RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
Hendrick Danckerts
on Artnet
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1625 births
1680 deaths
Dutch engravers
Dutch landscape painters
Artists from The Hague
Dutch Golden Age printmakers
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters