Hendrick Danckerts

Hendrick Danckerts (c.1625 - 1680) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver, mostly of houses in their landscape settings.^[1] After some years in Italy, he spent most of his career in London, working for Charles II and his brother.

Thumb — Hendrick Danckerts, *Royal Gardener John Rose presenting a pineappel to King Charles II*, 1675

Danckerts was born in The Hague, where he learned his trade and remained until 1653.^[2] He visited England for the first time in 1650.^[2] In 1653 he went to Italy, where he stayed for five years.^[2] 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 harbours and royal residences.^[2] He also produced portraits and devotional pictures and made engravings after the Italian old masters in the Royal Collection. He left England in 1679^[2] due to the public hostility towards Roman Catholics after the Popish Plot controversy. He died soon after in Amsterdam, and was buried on 2 November 1680.^[2]

He was also known as the "Master with the two Anchors" and was the younger brother of the painter Johan Danckerts.^[2] Danckerts has twenty paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom.^[3]