Hendrik de Clerck - Artist Info

About Hendrik de Clerck

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Hendrick De Clerck
  • Biography

    Hendrick de Clerck trained in Rome under the Flemish painter Frans van de Kasteele, before moving to Brussels where he worked as court-painter to the Governors of the Southern Netherlands. De Clerck’s work serves as a crucial bridge in Netherlandish painting, between the older influences of Antwerp Mannerism and the increasing significance of the fuller modelling and more dynamic effects of light which the generation of younger artists were increasingly inspired to adopt from their journeys to Italy....

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