Magdalena van den Hecken | |
Birth Date: | 1615 |
Birth Place: | Antwerp |
Death Date: | after 1635 |
Death Place: | Amsterdam |
Nationality: | Dutch Republic |
Known For: | Painting |
Movement: | Dutch Golden Age |
Magdalena van den Hecken (1615, possibly in Antwerp – after 1635) was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Van den Hecken may have been born in Antwerp. She is the daughter of the painter Samuel van den Hecken and moved with her family to Amsterdam.
Magadalena's father joined the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1617 as a master painter.
Magdalena mostly painted flowers, which were in the medium of oil paint.[1] She also painted in insects and animals.[2]
Several of Magdalena's works are located at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge,[3] two in the Kunsthaus Zürich.