Jacob van der Heyden (1572–1636) was a Flemish Baroque painter, sculptor and engraver. According to Houbraken he was a painter from

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who painted for royalty.Jacob van der Heyden Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature According to the RKD he was a son of Jan van der Heyden (died 1610) and worked in

and was known for portraits, landscapes and historical allegories.Jacob van der Heyden
in the

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Most of his work that survives today are engravings. He died in Strasbourg or

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