Francoys Dancx
Francoys Dancx or Danks (1636, Amsterdam – 1703, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Also recorded as Francoys Danks · Francois Danks · Fransois Danks, anders Schildpadt · Schildpad
Francoys Dancx
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- 1636 · Amsterdam.
- Died
- 1676 · Amsterdam.
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- Dutch Republic
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- painter
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- Dutch
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According to Houbraken he travelled to Rome and joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Schildpad" (turtle). He painted a portrait of the Amsterdam poet Catharina Questiers and sculpted a relief of an hourglass with the motto "Myn Glas loopt Ras" ("my glass drains fast") that was installed on a house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam, and both of these artworks were the subject of poems themselves by the Amsterdam poets Cornelis van Ryssen and Jan Koenerding. According to the RKD he left Amsterdam for Indonesia in 1676. There he drew landscapes that were later published in 1682 in Johan Nieuhof's book called 'Zee- en lantreize door verscheidene gewesten von Oost Indien' ("Sea and land journey through the East Indies").
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1636
Francoys Dancx was born on 6 May 1636.
1676
Francoys Dancx died on 14 May 1676.
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