- Willem van Haecht
Willem van Haecht (
Antwerp , 1593 –12 July 1637 ) was aFlemish Baroque painter best known for his gallery pictures and the son of the landscape painterTobias Verhaecht . He studied underPeter Paul Rubens , worked inParis from 1615 to 1619, and then travelled toItaly for about seven years. Van Haecht became a master in Antwerp'sguild of St. Luke in 1626 and from 1628 onwards was thecurator of the art collection owned byCornelis van der Geest . This collection is represented in allegorical terms in the "Picture Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest" (1628; Rubenshuis, Antwerp). The left side of the painting includes various portraits of contemporaneous figures, including (from the left) Infanta Isabel Clara of Spain, Archduke Albert of Austria,Peter Paul Rubens , Prince Władysław Vasa of Poland (who visited van der Geest's Gallery in 1624, with black hat) and the host showing a picture, [ [http://martim33.w.interia.pl/voyage.html Pobyt królewicza Władysława Zygmunta w Niderlandach] ] as well as many famous paintings like "Paracelsus " byQuentin Matsys .ources
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Oxford University Press , [November 7, 2007] .
*Vlieghe, Hans (1998). "Flemish art and architecture, 1585-1700". Pelican history of art. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300070381
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