Hendrick Danckerts

Hendrick Danckerts (1625 - 1680) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and engraverHe painted Italianizing landscapes, and particularly views of harbors and royal residences He also produces portraits and pious paintings as well as engravings for the Royal Collection

Sometimes it also produced in the creation of devotional figures and portraits as well as reproductive paintings of the old Italian masters

Danckerts was born in The Hague, where he learned his trade and remained 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 (later James II & VII) He painted Italianate 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 He died soon after in Amsterdam

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

Works:
A Panorama of Monmouth with Troy House
A View of Greenwich and the Queen's House from the South-East by Hendrick Danckerts
Banketing House, imagen recorte de una pintura
Nonsuch Palace from the North East
The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrik Danckerts
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