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Daniel van Heil, born in Brussels in 1604, belonged to a local dynasty of painters that included his father and two brothers. He was admitted as a master to the Brussels guild in 1627. His career belongs to seventeenth-century Flemish painting and centres principally on landscape, a field in which he developed several distinct types of composition.
His paintings depict winter scenes, settings enriched with ruins and, especially, fires. The spectacle of burning buildings brings architecture, smoke and human figures into confrontation, giving landscape a dramatic dimension. Fire at the Antwerp Powder Magazine, held in Pau, belongs to this speciality. Brussels and Antwerp collections also preserve his fire scenes, while his winter subjects reveal another aspect of his interest in weather, light and atmospheric effects.
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Oil on wood
Die Flucht Aeneas und Anchises aus dem brennenden Troja
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2017-06-23
Published result : 4500 CHF
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Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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