{{Short description|Dutch Golden Age painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Hendrick Berckman | image = Gulden Cabinet - Henry Berkmans p 415.jpg | caption = <small>''Henry Berckmans'' in Het Gulden Cabinet </small> | birth_name = Hendrick | birth_date = 1629 | birth_place = Klundert | death_date = {{death year and age|1679|1629}} | death_place = Middelburg | field = Painting | movement = Baroque | website = }}

'''Hendrick Berckman''' (1629 – buried 27 March 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

==Biography== He was a pupil of Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert and Jacob Jordaens in Antwerp, and spent some time in Haarlem studying with Philip Wouwermans.<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/6747 Hendrick Berckman] in the RKD</ref> He is registered in Leiden from 1652 to 1654, and in 1655 he settled in Middleburg. Though he trained as a landscape painter, he is most known today for his portraits of respected members of the elite.

According to Houbraken, he was a promising young painter of "batalje" or small-scale battle-pieces, who was advised by Jacob Jordaens to try making large paintings, which he did.<ref>{{in lang|nl}}<!--Middle Dutch--> [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0073.htm Hendrick Berckman biography] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature</ref> <gallery> File:Hendrick Berckman - Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676).jpg|''Wedding portrait of Michiel de Ruyter'', painted in 1668. File:Hendrick Berckman - Portrait of Anna van Gelder (1614-1685).jpg|Pendant ''Wedding portrait of Anna van Gelder,'' wife of De Ruyter, 1668. </gallery>

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