page_title: Jan van den Hecke
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Jan van den Hecke / References
context_page_description: Jan van den Hecke or Jan van den Hecke the Elder was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman, printmaker and engraver mainly known for his still lifes, landscapes and battle scenes. After training in Antwerp, he spent time in Rome where he had important patrons. After his return to Flanders he worked for a while in Brussels likely painting flower still lifes for Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, the Austrian governor of the Spanish Netherlands, before returning to work in Antwerp.
context_section_description: Also known as: Jan van den Hecke (I), Jan van Hecke, Jan vanden Eecken, Jan van Ecke, Joannes van Heck
  Jan van den Hecke (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  Hieronymus Galle (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  Jan van den Hecke I (Biographical details) at the British Museum
  Huguette Vanagt, Daniël Seghers - Guirlande met de Heilige Theresia van Avila at Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen (in Dutch)
  Jan van den Hecke (II) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  The Zoographia at Old Master Prints
  Jan van den Hecke, Flowers in a Vase with the Siege of Gravelingen Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (in German)
  David Freedberg, "The Origins and Rise of the Flemish Madonnas in Flower Garlands, Decoration and Devotion", Münchener Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, xxxii, 1981, pp. 115–150.
  Susan Merriam, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012
  Jan van den Hecke, Rosary Madonna in a Garland at the Kroměříž Archdiocesan Museum
  Jan Lievens and Jan van den Hecke, Portrait of a Young Man in Flower Garland Archived 19 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (in German)
  Jan van den Hecke the Elder, Still Life with a Gilt Goblet, Fruit and Oysters, 1643, on artnet
  Joannes van Heck biography in: Arnold Houbraken, De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen, 1718 (in Dutch)
  Jan van den Hecke (I), Market in the Roman Campagna at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  Jan van den Hecke (I), Hunting Party at a Tavern (in Dutch)
  Levine, David A. (December 1988). "The Roman Limekilns of the Bamboccianti". The Art Bulletin. College Art Association. 70 (4), p. 570
  Haskell, Francis (1993). "Chapter 8". Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy. Yale University Press, pp. 132–134.
  Title-page of the series Alcune Animali at the British Museum
  Title-page of the series of animal prints of the Zoographia at the British Museum
  A view of the Castle of Reedt at the British Museum
caption: Cows and two milkmaids
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