Robert van den Hoecke

Robert van den Hoecke ( November 30 1622–1668) was a Flemish Baroque painter of battle scenes in the manner of Pieter Snayers. [cite book | author = Hans Vlieghe | year = 1998 | title = Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700 | series = Pelican history of art | location = New Haven | publisher = Yale University Press | pages = 173 | id = ISBN 0300070381] He was the son of Gaspar van den Hoecke and the brother of Jan van den Hoecke. Born in Antwerp, he became a master in the city's Guild of St. Luke in 1644–45, and after 1649 Van den Hoecke was active in Brussels at the court of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.cite book | author = Gregory Martin | year = 1970 | title = The Flemish School circa 1600–circa 1900 | series = National Gallery Catalogues | location = London | publisher = National Gallery Publications | pages = 21–22 | id = ISBN 0901791024] Gonzales Coques painted his portrait—also an allegory of sight for a series of the five senses [ [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG1114 National Gallery website] (accessed 24 November, 2007).] —which shows him as "Controleur des fortifications".

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