Jan van den Hoecke

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The King's Generosity (1635) in the Palais des beaux-arts de Lille.
The Triumph of David (1635)

Jan van den Hoecke (* 1611 in Antwerp ; † 1651 ibid) was a Flemish painter.

Life

Jan van den Hoecke, brother of Robert van den Hoecke , was initially a student of his father Kaspar van den Hoecke , then he took lessons from Peter Paul Rubens , in whose workshop he worked for some time. In 1635 he worked on the decorations for the entry of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand, brother of King Philip IV of Spain, in Antwerp.

Shortly afterwards, around 1637, he went to Italy and then spent ten years in Austria for Emperor Ferdinand III. active. In 1647 he returned to Antwerp and became court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm , for whom he executed numerous religious and biblical paintings and portraits.

In his portraits he follows the painter Anthonis van Dyck more than Rubens. He also painted altarpieces for churches in Flanders. In addition to two portraits, a Madonna and Child, an allegory of transience, the allegories of six months and of day and night have come to the Belvedere in Vienna from the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. The museum in Antwerp has a Saint Francis in front of the Madonna and Child.

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Jan van den Hoecke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Bußmann , Heinz Schilling : 1648 - War and Peace in Europe. Catalog volume and two text volumes, Münster 1998 [Documentation of the Council of Europe exhibition on the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster and Osnabrück.] Münster / Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , p. 424 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoecke, Jan van den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1611
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH 1651
Place of death Antwerp