Hendrick Aerts (between 1565 and 1575 – 1603)

• Was a Flemish Painter and draftsman. 

• Aalternative names: Hendrick Aertsz., Henricus Arijssel, Hendrik Arts, Henricus A. Rijssel.

• He was active in Gdańsk and Prague.

• Aerts is assumed to be a native of Mechelen and that he was born there as the son of Jacob Aerts and Elisabeth van Egheem.
• Aerts having been a pupil of Paul Vredeman de Vries.

• The training probably took place when both artists resided in Gdańsk in the period from 1592 to 1595.

• Aerts would then have accompanied Vredeman de Vries to Prague from 1596 to 1599, where he worked as his assistant in the decoration of the ceilings and the reception rooms of Emperor Rudolf II's castle.

• From 1599 Aerts may have returned to Gdańsk, where he probably died in 1603.

• Only a few paintings of Hendrick Aerts have been preserved. Research attributes less than ten paintings to him.

• The earliest reliable work is dated 1600 and the last known work 1602. 

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