Biography

According to Houbraken, who summarized a two-page poem about his work by Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie was a Brabant rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier.He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies...

, Daniel van Heil was a Flemish painter who specialized in landscapes with winter scenes or burning fires. He was the brother of Jan Baptist van Heil

Jan Baptist van Heil

-Biography:According to Houbraken, who summarized a poem about his work by Cornelis de Bie, Jan Baptist van Heil was a Flemish portrait painter who was considered the best of three famous brothers; his brother Leo van Heil was a painter of flowers and insects, while his brother Daniel van Heil...

 and Leo van Heil

Leo van Heil

-Biography:According to Cornelis de Bie, Leo van Heil was a Flemish painter who specialized in flowers and insects, who had two famous brothers; his brother Jan Baptist van Heil was a portrait painter considered the best of the three, and his brother Daniel van Heil specialized in landscapes with...

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According to the RKD, he was a landscape painter active in Brussels, specializing in winter scenes. His other theme of fires, which De Bie mentions in his poem, seems to have been popular, and in particular his theme of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the burning city of Troy seems to have been most popular, since more than 5 copies are known today.