Category:Danckerts

English: Danckerts is the name of a 17th century Dutch family of engravers of Amsterdam who made and sold prints and maps and formed one of the leading Dutch map houses. Danckerts maps and composite atlases were known internationally. Their shop was on the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam, called variously Dankers or Dankbaarheit. The cartographic business was established by Cornelis Danckerts I (1603-1656), achieved prominence under his son, Justus Danckerts (1635-1701) and flourished under his grandsons, Theodorus Danckerts I (1663-1727) and Cornelis Danckerts II (1664-1717). The Danckerts family enterprise was reduced in scale in 1710s and came to an end in 1727.

Many Danckerts family members were engravers, printers, publishers, painters, architects, and surveyors. The history of the family can be traced to Cornelis Danckerts (1536-1595), an Amsterdam carpenter. He married Lijsbet Cornelisdr and they had two sons, Cornelis Danckers de Rij I (1536-1634), first a bricklayer and then an architect, and Dancker Cornelisz (1580-1625), first skipper, then stone merchant. Thus, two branches of the Danckerts family formed:

• Danckerts de Rij—sometimes de Ry—branch included Cornelis Danckers de Rij I (1561–1634), an Amsterdam architect; his son, Cornelis Danckers de Rij II (1596-1662), who became an official surveyor of Amsterdam; and his grandson, Peter Danckerts de Rij (1605-1661) who became painter to the king of Poland, among others.
• Danckerts branch included Dancker Cornelisz, who married in 1603 Lijsbet Jansdr and they had two sons, Cornelis Danckerts I (1603-1656) and Dancker Danckerts I (b. 1614). Cornelis Danckerts I had six children, among them were: Dancker Danckerts II (1634-1701), who was childless, and Justus Danckerts I (1635-1701), who had three sons, Theodorus Danckerts I (1663-1727), Cornelis Danckerts II (1664-1717), and Justus Danckerts II (d. 1692). Cornelis Danckerts II married Geertrui Magnus, daughter of book-binder and book dealer Albert Magnus (d. 1689); he continued the bookselling business of Magnus with his mother-in-law. Another member of the family, Johan Danckerts came to England and designed plates for Robert Stapylton's edition of Juvenal, which were engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar; his brother, Hendrick Danckerts (c.1625-1680) was employed by Charles II as engraver and landscape painter.