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Lankrink, Prosper Henry
(b Antwerp, ?1628; d London, bur 11 July 1692). Flemish painter and collector, active in England. He studied painting in Antwerp and came to London probably in the mid-1660s. He combined independent work as a landscape and decorative painter with acting as an assistant to Peter Lely, who, according to Buckeridge, ‘employed him in painting the grounds, landskips, flowers, ornaments, and sometimes the draperies of those pictures he intended to gain esteem by’. Although Lankrink seems to have been prolific and much admired by his contemporaries, none of his works can now be identified with any certainty, although John Smith (i) engraved a mezzotint of Nymphs Bathing after a lost painting by him, possibly after Lankrink’s death, and certain landscapes bear traditional attributions to him (e.g. Weston Park, Staffs). A drawing of a Young Woman at a Fountain (Oxford, Ashmolean) has also been tentatively linked with him.
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