Hendrick de Clerck was a Flemish painter active in Brussels during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Stylistically he belongs to the late Mannerist generation of artists preceding Peter Paul Rubens and the Flemish Baroque, and his paintings are very similar to his contemporary Marten de Vos.
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Hendrick de Clerck presumed self-portrait as John the Apostle
Hendrick De Clerck, The Judgement of Midas, c. 1600. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
Hendrick De Clerck, The Adoration of the Magi, 1629. Anderlecht, Church of Saint Guido and Saint Peter.
Hendrick De Clerck and Jan Brueghel the Elder, Abundance and the Four Elements, 1606. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
Hendrick De Clerck, Lucretia, c. 1610. Private collection.Artists born in the 1560s 6
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Hendrick de Clerck was a Flemish painter active in Brussels during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Stylistically he belongs to the late Mannerist generation of artists preceding Peter Paul Rubens and the Flemish Baroque, and his paintings are very similar to his contemporary Marten de Vos. His exact date of birth is unknown, but in 1594 he is employed as court painter to Archduke Ernest, a position he continued to hold in the service of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella following Ernest's death in 1596.
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