The Manor House, Cresswells
1665
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1665
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Manor House, Cresswells is a 1665 by Hendrick Danckerts, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a big brick house with tall chimneys, set in green fields and rolling hills. A river winds past, and tiny people walk along the paths. This painting was a practice sketch for a rich English duke. It’s part of a trend where Dutch artists like Danckerts were hired to paint grand estates after England’s civil war. The detail in the trees and clouds shows how much care went into even a rough draft. If you like this, look up subject: netherlands to see more Dutch landscape painters who worked in England.
The Anglo-Dutch painter, Hendrick Danckert, made this panoramic view of the manor house at Cresswells, Bray, in Berkshire, England around 1670. The drawing was preparatory for a painting of the house, presumably commissioned by its owner, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. The genre of topographical painting that flourished in England beginning in the 17th century accompanied the building boom after the Restoration (1660), which was funded in large part by the American colonies. Many Dutch artists, trained in landscape painting in their native country, emigrated to England to meet the…
The timber-framed house depicted here was built in the fifteenth century and demolished in the eighteenth century.
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Hendrick Danckerts (c. 1625 – 1680) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver, mostly of houses in their landscape settings. After some years in Italy, he spent most of his career in London, working for Charles II and his brother.
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