Nicolaes de Helt Stockade explained

Nicolaes van Helt Stockade
Birth Name:Nicolaes de Helt Stockade
Birth Date:1614
Birth Place:Nijmegen
Death Place:Amsterdam
Nationality:Dutch
Field:Painting
Movement:Baroque

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

Biography

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]

Notes and References

  1. 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. Web site: Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (Nijmegen 1614-1669 Amsterdam) .
  3. https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/37315 Helt Stockade