Nicolaes de Helt Stockade

Nicolaes van Helt Stockade
Nicolaes de Helt Stockade in Het Gulden Cabinet.
Born
Nicolaes de Helt Stockade

1614
Nijmegen
Died1669 (aged 54–55)
Amsterdam
NationalityDutch
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614–1669), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Mourning Phaëton, painted in 1650–60.

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

  1. ^ (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
  2. ^ "Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (Nijmegen 1614-1669 Amsterdam)".
  3. ^ Helt Stockade in the RKD