Hendrick van Berckenrode - detail of The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616 by Frans Hals

Hendrick van Berckenrode (c.1565 – 1634), was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

mayor of Haarlem.

Biography

He was the son of Adriaen van Berckenrode, a Haarlem judge and mayor, and Christina van Blanckeroort. He never married and became a judge, magistrate and mayor of Haarlem like his father.Hendrick van Berckenrode
in record for this painting in the

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He became a member of the

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and colonel of the St. George militia in Haarlem from 1606 to 1615, and colonel of the St. Adrian militia from 1618 to 1621. He was portrayed by

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

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The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616 ''The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616'' refers to the first of several large schutterstukken painted by Frans Hals for the St. George (or St. Joris) civic guard of Haarlem, and today is considered one of the main ...

''. He died in Haarlem as the last of the Berckenrodes of castle Berckenrode and was buried in the Grote Kerk.

References

Hendrick van Berckenrode
in ''De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken'', by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 66, Haerlem : jaarboek 1958, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives 1560s births 1634 deaths Frans Hals People from Haarlem Mayors of Haarlem {{Netherlands-mayor-stub