Hendrick van der Burch (1627 – after 1665)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter.
• Hendrick van der Burch was baptized in Naaldwijck, a village about nine miles east of Delft, on June 27, 1627.

• His parents were the candlemaker Rochus Hendricksz van der Burch and Dicwertj. Jochmsdr van Vliet.

• Hendrick had at least four sisters: Anna, Jacomina, Maria, and Trijntge. Jannetge de Hooch, wife of the painter Pieter de Hooch, has also been identified as a sister or a stepsister of Van der Burch.

• In 1633 the family moved to Voorburg, a small town near Delft and The Hague.

• Van der Burch is first documented in Delft in 1642. 

• He must have received his training as a painter there.

• On January 25, 1649, he joined the local Guild of Saint Luke.

• Three years later on August 5, 1652, he signed a notarial document with Pieter de Hooch—the earliest evidence of De Hooch's residence in Delft.

• By September 4, I655, Van der Burch had moved to Leiden, where he married Cornelia Cornelisdr van Rossum,

• They had five children; their son Rochus also became a painter. • In January 1666 the couple rented a house on Leiden's most prestigious canal, the Rapenburg.

• Although the date of the artist's registration with the Leiden guild is not known, Van der Burch was a member paying regular dues.

• By May 1659 he and his family had moved to Amsterdam.

• Documents from 1661 place Van der Burch again in Leiden.

• The last surviving record that mentions Van der Burch refers, however, to his paying dues to the guild in Delft in 1664.

• The date of his death remains unknown.

• His last child was baptized in Leiden in 1666, which suggests 1665 as the earliest possible year of his demise.

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