Hendrick Goudt (c. 1583 – 17 December 1648) 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, ...

painter, printmaker and draftsman of landscapes and religious subjects who was strongly influenced by Adam Elsheimer.

Biography

Goudt was born in The Hague, the son of Arend Goudt and Anneken Cool. Goudt's grandfather Hendrik came from a family of high officials. He was the nephew and heir of the

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, steward of the States of Holland, whose wealth is on display at Noordeinde Palace, which he constructed in 1533. Goudt's mother was the daughter of an inn-keeper in

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who by all accounts suffered from mental illness characterised at the time as

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. Arend Goudt on married Anneken on 10 January 1604 in order to legitimise his son, and continued to live apart from her. Hendrick left for Rome after this. Hendrick worked with Elsheimer in Rome until the latter's death in 1610.