Nicolaes de Helt Stockade
Appearance
Nicolaes van Helt Stockade | |
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![]() Nicolaes de Helt Stockade in Het Gulden Cabinet. | |
Born | Nicolaes de Helt Stockade 1614 |
Died | 1669 (aged 54–55) |
Nationality | Dutch |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Baroque |
Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614–1669), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
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According to Houbraken, Joost van den Vondel made a poem about him.[1]
Stockade served as a court painter to King Louis XIII between 1637 and 1645.[2] According to the RKD he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1646 and worked on the city hall of Nijmegen and the Amsterdam City Hall.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ (in Dutch) Nikolaas de Helt Stokade in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ "Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (Nijmegen 1614-1669 Amsterdam)".
- ^ Helt Stockade in the RKD