Daniel van Heil

Daniel van Heil
Daniel van Heil in Het Gulden Cabinet
Birth name	Daniël
Born	1604 Brussels
Died	1664 (aged 59–60) Brussels
Nationality	Flanders
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Daniel van Heil (1604–1664), was a Flemish Baroque painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken, who summarized a two-page poem about his work by Cornelis de Bie, Daniel van Heil was a Flemish painter who specialized in landscapes with winter scenes or burning fires.^[1] He was the brother of Jan Baptist van Heil and Leo van Heil.

According to the RKD, he was a landscape painter active in Brussels, specializing in winter scenes.^[2] His other theme of fires, which De Bie mentions in his poem, seems to have been popular, and in particular his theme of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the burning city of Troy seems to have been most popular, since more than 5 copies are known today.

References

1. ^ (Dutch) Daniel van Heil biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
2. ^ Daniel van Heil in the RKD

Persondata
Name	Van Heil, Daniel
Alternative names
Short description	painter
Date of birth	1604
Place of birth	Brussels
Date of death	1664
Place of death	Brussels