Hendrik van Balen

Hendrik van Balen , 1575-1632, Flemish painter, b. Antwerp. Van Balen usually provided the figures for scenes in which another painter, frequently Jan Brueghel, designed the landscape settings. A minor artist, van Balen is noted mainly for his mythological scenes, of which Landscape with Two Nymphs (Munich) is typical.

Balen, Hendrick van (b Antwerp, c.1575; d Antwerp, 17 July 1632). Flemish Mannerist painter, active mainly in Antwerp (he spent virtually all his life there apart from a sojourn in Italy in the 1590s). His speciality was mythological scenes painted in the highly finished manner of Jan Brueghel, one of the numerous artists with whom he collaborated. Van Balen was a popular teacher, his most important pupil being van Dyck. He also had three painter sons.

Balen, Hendrick van (c.1575–1632). Flemish Mannerist painter, active mainly in his native Antwerp (he spent virtually all his life there apart from a sojourn in Italy in the 1590s). His speciality was mythological scenes painted in the highly finished manner of Jan Brueghel, one of the numerous artists with whom he collaborated. Van Balen was a popular teacher, his most important pupil being van Dyck. He also had three painter sons.