Francoys Dancx or Danks (1636, Amsterdam – 1703, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he travelled to Rome and joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Schildpad" (turtle).[1] He painted a portrait of the Amsterdam poet Catharina Questiers and sculpted a relief of an hourglass with the motto "Myn Glas loopt Ras" ("my glass drains fast") that was installed on a house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam, and both of these artworks were the subject of poems themselves by the Amsterdam poets Cornelis van Ryssen and Jan Koenerding.[1]

According to the RKD he left Amsterdam for Indonesia in 1676.[2] There he drew landscapes that were later published in 1682 in Johan Nieuhof's book called 'Zee- en lantreize door verscheidene gewesten von Oost Indien' ("Sea and land journey through the East Indies").[2]

References

  1. 1 2 (in Dutch) Francois Danks Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. 1 2 Francoys Dancx in the RKD
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