Johan Danckerts
Illustration — A Bacchanal, loosely based on Titian's The Bacchanal of the Andrians Johan Danckerts (c. 1616, The Hague - 19 October 1686, Haarlem) was a Dutch etcher and painter. In 1631, Danckerts entered the guild of St.
Also recorded as Johan Dankerts · Johan Danckersz. · Johannes Danckerts the Younger · Johannes Danckersz.
Johan Danckerts
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- Born
- 1615 · The Hague.
- Died
- 1686 · Haarlem.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · engraver
- Fields
- portrait
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Illustration — A Bacchanal, loosely based on Titian's The Bacchanal of the Andrians Johan Danckerts (c. 1616, The Hague - 19 October 1686, Haarlem) was a Dutch etcher and painter. In 1631, Danckerts entered the guild of St.
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Luke at the Hague, of which he was dean from 1650 to 1652. In 1653 he went to Rome where he stayed until 1658. In that year he moved to England for 18 years. After returning to The Hague, he spent the last years of his life in Amsterdam and Haarlem. He painted historical subjects and portraits, and made some of the designs for the plates which Wenceslaus Hollar engraved for Robert Stapylton's edition of Juvenal, published in 1660. Hollar engraved also after him a head of John Price, the biblical critic. He likewise etched a few plates, including Venus reclining, after Titian, and an Embarkation of Merchandise. Johan was the older brother of Hendrick Danckerts.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are The Hague, Rome and Great Britain. Work by Johan Danckerts is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale Center for British Art.
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- 1.Danckerts, Johan at the Netherlands Institute for Art History website
- 2.Graves, Robert Edmund. 14.
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