Henry Voordecker

King William I bought a panel by him in 1820. Collections with his works include the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, and the Belgian as well as the British Royal Collection. A scene with eight pigeons was given by Queen Victoria to her husband Albert, Prince Consort on his birthday in 1841.

Training under Jean-Baptiste De Roy is recorded. Places of work recorded in the authority are Brussels. Works named in the authority record are Hunter's Dwelling. Work by Henry Voordecker is recorded in the collections of Rijksmuseum, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, National Museum of Archeology, History and Art and Usher Gallery.

• Name — Henry Voordecker • Born — 24 August 1779 • Birthplace — Brussels, Austrian Netherlands • Died — 3 December 1861 • Place of death — Brussels, Belgium • Occupation — painter • Illustration — Hunter's Home, 1826, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam • Illustration — In the Dovecot, 1833

Voordecker studied with Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, who was a Brussels counterpart of the Antwerp animal painter Balthasar Paul Ommeganck, and knew Jacques-Louis David, who lived in exile in Brussel after 1816. According to Philippe Bordes, Voordecker may have collaborated with David to paint the figure of Agamemnon in the 1819 version of the painting The Rage of Achilles, now in the Kimbell Art Museum, at Fort Worth in Texas). Some of their correspondence survives and is a useful source for David's later life.

The son of Pierre Voordecker and Agnes Rega, Henri Voordecker married Marie Jeanne Guldentops. They had a son, François, and a daughter, Louise; both became artists. Louise was the art teacher at the court of King Leopold I and painted mostly fruit and flowers. François Voordecker was a genre painter and portraitist.

Henry Voordecker is recorded as painter.