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painter, draughtsman, printmaker and engraver, mainly known for his still lifes, landscapes and battle scenes. After training in
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Garland paintings were typically collaborations between a still life specialist and a figure painter. As van den Hecke was a gifted figure painter he may have painted both the still life elements as the figures in some of his garland paintings. This may have been the case in his
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in Vienna. Archduke
Leopold Wilhelm must have particularly liked his flower pieces as all of van den Hecke's paintings which he collected were pictures of flowers in vases and baskets and garland paintings. Van den Hecke returned to Antwerp around 1657.
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In the mid 1650s he made a number of etchings depicting various animals and battle scenes. He collaborated with other printmakers on publishing projects. In 1654 he made the designs for a series of 10 plates which were engraved by the Dutch engraver
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Jan van den Hecke was a versatile artist working in many genres and techniques. He made still lifes of flowers, fruit and game, paintings of animals, landscapes, genre scenes, military scenes and allegorical paintings.
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He travelled to Italy, and spent a period in Rome. The precise dates of his trip are unknown: the alternatives that have been proposed are from 1644 to 1659 and 1653 to 1658. While there, he enjoyed the patronage of
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Jan van den Hecke made a number of works in a distinctively
Flemish genre, which is referred to as 'garland painting'. Garland paintings are a special type of still life developed in early 17th century Antwerp by
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His landscapes often include battle or military scenes with many figures. His landscapes are in an
Italianate style. One of his paintings representing a
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Levine, David A. (December 1988). "The Roman
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with ostentatious objects, a genre invented in
Antwerp. He was particularly skilled at painting gold, silver, crystal and porcelain.
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Haskell, Francis (1993). "Chapter 8". Patrons and
Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy. Yale University Press, pp. 132–134.
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In 1660, van der Hecke married Maria Adriana Heyens, with whom he had three children. His son, known as
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Van den Hecke's two known pupils were Peeter vander Elstraeten (1657–60) and Peeter de Clerc (1672–73).
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