Hendrik Frans van Lint (1684 – 1763)

• Was a Flemish landscape and vedute painter.
• Hendrik Frans van Lint was born in Antwerp, the son of the history painter Pieter van Lint and his second wife Anna Moeren.
• As his father died when he was only 6 years old van Lint became in 1696 an apprentice of Peeter van Bredael.
• Van Lint did not stay to complete his apprenticeship but left for Rome somewhere between 1697 and 1700.
• Here he would stay for the remainder of his life except for a short visit to Antwerp in 1710 after the death of his mother.
• In 1697, van Lint joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome.
• Van Lint's bent name was: studie (in Dutch) or lo studio (and even 'Monsú Studio') (in Italian).
• This nickname may have been given him because of his meticulous technique, which relied on extensive preparatory work and studies.
• He was in the habit of making detailed drawings in pencil, pen and wash, often in situ.
• He would frequently go on expeditions lasting up to a few weeks to the countryside around Rome.
• Van Lint lived in the via del Babuino and married in 1719 Ludovica Margarete Tassel, daughter of an Italian tailor.
• The couple had 10 children, one of whom called Jacob or Giacomo van Lint also a became a vedute painter.
• Van Lint appears to have moved in the circle of the Dutch vedute painter Gaspar van Wittel, known in Rome as ‘il Vanvitelli’.
• He died in his house on via del Babuino in Rome on 24 September 1763.
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