Hendrick Danckerts (c.1625 – 1680) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and engraver.
Danckerts was born in The Hague, where he bookish his trade and remained until 1653. He visited England for the first become old in 1650. In 1653 he went to Italy, where he stayed for five years. He subsequently moved to England where he entered the support of Charles II and the Duke of York (later James II & VII.) He painted Italianate landscapes, especially views of harbors and royal residences. He afterward produced portraits and devotional pictures and made engravings after the Italian outdated masters in the Royal Collection. He left England in 1679 due to the public spite towards Roman Catholics after the Popish Plot controversy. He died soon after in Amsterdam.
He was nom de plume the “Master in imitation of the two Anchors” and was the younger brother of the painter Johan Danckerts. Danckerts has twenty paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom.
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