Robert van den Hoecke

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Robert van den Hoecke, View of Ostend, c.1650. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Robert van den Hoecke, View of Ostend, c.1650. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Robert van den Hoecke (1622–1668) was a Flemish Baroque painter of battle scenes in the manner of Pieter Snayers.[1] 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.[2] Gonzales Coques painted his portrait—also an allegory of sight for a series of the five senses[3]—which shows him as "Controleur des fortifications".[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700, Pelican history of art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 173. ISBN 0300070381. 
  2. ^ a b Gregory Martin (1970). The Flemish School circa 1600–circa 1900, National Gallery Catalogues. London: National Gallery Publications, 21–22. ISBN 0901791024. 
  3. ^ National Gallery website (accessed 24 November, 2007).