Early Life, Family and Training Johan Danckerts was born in The Hague in 1615. He grew up within a family of artists, being the older brother of Hendrick Danckerts. His early years in the Netherlands were shaped by the professional structures of the Dutch Golden Age, where the craft of painting and engraving was a matter of formal guild membership and community standing. In 1631, Johan Danckerts entered the guild of St. Luke at The H…