Leo van Heil
| Leo van Heil | |
|---|---|
 Leo van Heil in Het Gulden Cabinet, p 527 | |
| Born |
Leo 1605 Brussels |
| Died |
1664 (aged 58–59) Brussels |
| Nationality | Flanders |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
Leo van Heil (1605 – c.1664), was a Flemish Baroque painter.
According to Cornelis de Bie, Leo van Heil was a Flemish painter who specialized in flowers and insects, who had two famous brothers; his brother Jan Baptist van Heil was a portrait painter considered the best of the three, and his brother Daniel van Heil specialized in landscapes with winter scenes or burning fires.[1]
According to his picture in Het Gulden Cabinet, he not only painted flowers and insects, but he was good at other small animals, buildings, and drawing perspectives (the example in his hand is an archway).[2][3]
References
- ↑ (Dutch) Jan Baptist van Heil biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ↑ Het Gulden Cabinet, p 527
- ↑ Leo van Heil in the RKD
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