Biography

According to 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...

, Leo van Heil was a Flemish painter who specialized in flowers and insects, who had two famous brothers; his brother 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...

 was a portrait painter considered the best of the three, and his brother Daniel van Heil

Daniel van Heil

-Biography:According to Houbraken, who summarized a two-page poem about his work by Cornelis de Bie, 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 and Leo van Heil....

 specialized in landscapes with winter scenes or burning fires.

According to his picture in Het Gulden Cabinet

Het Gulden Cabinet

The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Free Art of Painting, or Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits written by the 17th century notary and rederijker Cornelis de Bie...

, he not only painted flowers and insects, but he was good at other small animals, buildings, and drawing perspectives (the example in his hand is an archway).