Hendrick Berckman

Dutch Golden Age painter

Hendrick Berckman
Henry Berckmans in Het Gulden Cabinet
Born	Hendrick 1629 Klundert
Died	1679 (aged 49–50) Middelburg
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Hendrick Berckman (1629 – buried 27 March 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

He was a pupil of Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert and Jacob Jordaens in Antwerp, and spent some time in Haarlem studying with Philip Wouwermans.^[1] He is registered in Leiden from 1652 to 1654, and in 1655 he settled in Middleburg. Though he trained as a landscape painter, he is most known today for his portraits of respected members of the elite.

According to Houbraken, he was a promising young painter of "batalje" or small-scale battle-pieces, who was advised by Jacob Jordaens to try making large paintings, which he did.^[2]

Wedding portrait of Michiel de Ruyter, painted in 1668.
Pendant Wedding portrait of Anna van Gelder, wife of De Ruyter, 1668.

References

^ Hendrick Berckman in the RKD
^ (in Dutch) Hendrick Berckman biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature