Hendrick Danckerts

(b The Hague, 1625; d Amsterdam, 1680). Dutch painter and engraver, active in Italy and England. He was the son of Johannes Danckerts the elder and the younger brother of the engraver Johannes Danckerts the younger (1615-c. 1681/7). From 1645 to 1653 he worked in The Hague, where he became a master in 1651. After 1653 he travelled to Italy. He was accompanied on his journey by van Steenvoorde, the student of his brother Johannes. In Rome they came into contact with those artists known as the DUTCH ITALIANATES. Their manner of depicting the Roman campagna in luminous colours and their landscape motifs recur constantly in the work of Danckerts.

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Hendrick Danckerts, Royal Gardener John Rose and King Charles II, 1675

Hendrick Danckerts (c.1625, The Hague - 1680, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and engraver.

Danckerts learned his trade in The Hague, where he stayed until 1653. He visited England 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. He painted landscapes, especially views of harbors and royal residences. He also produced portraits and devotional pictures and made engravings after the Italian old masters in the Royal Collection. He left England in 1679 due to the public hostility towards Roman Catholics after the Popish Plot controversy.

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